| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 29323 |
| QUOTATION: | To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one’s piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Lucrezia Borgia, preface (1833). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hugo Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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