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"He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence...

He was on the right path. But he did not know it" (1102-1103)

"The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary"

Oh goody. 😅

OK but actually, this makes me grateful for modern day plumbing

Too many good quotes in here.

Volume V: Book I complete. Into the sewers!

"Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other" (1065)

"'God is dead, perhaps,' said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption of movement for the death of Being" (1064)

"This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with love, in this interchange of reverbations and reflections, in this marvelous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid gold
[...]one caught a glimpse of God, that millionaire of stars."

"Speech being a breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves" p.1024

"While it's natural to move quickly from one thought to the next, strong emotions take a while to subside. Thoughts are all electricity. Emotions add chemistry. Once the chemicals that fuel emotions are released, they hang around in the bloodstream for a time--in some cases, long after thoughts have changed. So be patient while chemistry catches up with the electricity" p.193

Officially made it to page 1000 🥳🎉
Volume IV of V complete.

OK but EPONINNNNEEEEEEEEE 😭
Someday I really want to be the one singing "a heart full of love" instead of "on my own" and "a little fall of rain"😅#IYKYK

*SPOILER WARNING*

-Literally takes a bullet for the boy

"Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.

"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you"

*DIES


Roughhhhhhhhh.

OK but EPONINNNNEEEEEEEEE 😭
Someday I really want to be the one singing "a heart full of love" instead of "on my own" and "a little fall of rain"😅#IYKYK

*SPOILER WARNING*

-Literally takes a bullet for the boy

"Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.

"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you"

*DIES


Roughhhhhhhhh.

"Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?"
-Hugo, 972

"Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will be [...] neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. [...] In the future no one will kill anyone else, [...] the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy, and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die."

"Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. [...] In the future [...] neither ferocious ignorance nor bloody retaliation[...]In the future no one will kill anyone else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die."

Volume IV: Book X finished

To the barricade!🚧🇫🇷

Kinda wish I'd read the abridged version 😅

Woot woot

Only 400 pages to go 😮‍💨
Had no idea Victor Hugo felt so strongly about slang that he wrote 19 pages about it

Volume IV, Book VI, Chapter II:
Ratatouille in an elephant IYKYK

Marius got rizz 😏

"What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul!"😎

Being called out in all the best ways😅

Reminds me a lot of Arbinger's Anatomy of Peace/Outward Mindset--especially on self-justfication

Volume IV: Book III complete

460 pages left.

Really hope Marius runs into Cosette soon😅

500 pages to go😅

Volume III of V complete 😮‍💨