Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.

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Victor Hugo: "Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant."

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Becomes	Celebrated	Conciseness	Despots
Doubles	Emerges	Enforced	Fettered
Filters	Fullness	Hardness	Historian
History	Imposes	Leads	Mysterious
Part	People	Play	Power
Prose	Repression	Rocklike	Ruler
Silence	Something	Steely	Tempering
Terrible	Thinkers	Thought	Through
Trebles	Tyrant	Words	Works
Writer	Writing

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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant. - Victor Hugo