The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
Victor HugoThough one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Victor HugoNothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.
Victor Hugo