Joel Arnold

“Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical with the persistence of the I.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Everything can be parodied, even parody.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables