I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.