“We ourselves respect the past in certain instances and in all cases grant it clemency, provided it consents to being dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack and try to kill it.” – Victor Hugo on social attitudes and practices once commonplace, but now seen as harmful.

“We ourselves respect the past in certain instances and in all cases grant it clemency, provided it consents to being dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack and try to kill it.”

– Victor Hugo on social attitudes and practices once commonplace, but now seen as harmful.

he was not a royalist, a Bonapartist, a chartist, an Orleanist, or an anarchist — simply a book-ist

Like everyone else he had a label, since at that time nobody could live without one, but his ‘ism’ was of a non-committed kind: he was not a royalist, a Bonapartist, a chartist, an Orleanist, or an anarchist — simply a book-ist.

Victor Hugo’s description of Pere Mabeuf, a friend of Marius’
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