“Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.Les Miserables, page 674”

“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”

“Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome”

“Les miserables”

“The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself or more correctly being loved in spite of yourself.”

“The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.”