“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Source: Les Misérables
“And die of nothing but a rage to live”
Variant: You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Source: Moral Essays
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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744Related quotes
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