We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor HugoLove is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor HugoDespots 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.
Victor Hugo