| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 29270 |
| QUOTATION: | I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Les Feuilles d’automne, preface (1831). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hugo Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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