“To love is to act”

—  Victor Hugo

Aimer, c'est agir
Last words of his diary, written two weeks before his death, published in Victor Hugo : Complete Writings (1970), edited by Jean-Jacques Pauvert

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Aimer, c'est agir

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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885

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