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Victor Hugo Quotes
	One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Victor Hugo Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Author Quotes Category: French Author Quotes Date of Birth: February 26, 1802 Date of Death: May 22, 1885 Nationality: French Amazon: Victor Hugo on Amazon	Related Authors: Andre Malraux Marcel Proust Ninon de L'Enclos Victor Hugo Georges Bernanos Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Jules Verne Charles Perrault
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