One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?