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They say slavery has vanished from European civilization. That is wrong. It still exists, but it now preys only on women, and it goes by the name of prostitution. It preys on women, meaning on grace, on weakness, on beauty, on the maternal. It is not the least of man’s shameful secrets.
— Jan 30, 2021 01:06AM
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When we speak of convents, those seats of error, but also of innocence; of befuddlement, but also of good intentions; of ignorance, but also of devotion; of torture, but also of martyrdom, you almost always have to say “yes and no.” A convent is a contradiction. As a goal, salvation; as a means, sacrifice. The convent is supreme selfishness resulting in supreme self-abnegation.
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At that moment, she suddenly felt that the bucket no longer weighed a thing. A hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just seized the handle and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A big black shape, straight and tall, was walking beside her in the darkness. It was a man, who had come up behind her without her hearing him coming.
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...three thousand men, in this godforsaken hole of Hougoumont alone, run through with swords, torn to pieces, butchered, their throats cut, shot, burned to death; and all that just so some peasant today can say to a traveller: “Monsieur, give me three francs and, if you like, I’ll tell you all about Waterloo!”
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He went easy on women and the poor, feeling that the weight of human society fell on them. He would say, “The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”
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Caricature representing Victor Hugo as the leader of "romantic" and "modern" authors.
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Victor Hugo Painting: Le phare d’Eddystone (1866) [from the introduction)
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Jan 31, 2021 05:07AM
Quite true, Elham. And if we delve deeper into the subject, we can say that we are our own slaves, from certain points of view.
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Sometimes, I think to myself that human beings are slaves of their biological constructions. We feel happy, sad, angry,...because of the interactions of nerves in brain..
...because our weakness, after all.
Théodore wrote: "...because our weakness, after all."Exactly..
"All that we own is our bodies. And we sell our bodies every day we live. We sell them when we go out in the morning to our jobs and when we labor all day. We are forced to sell at any price, at any time, for any purpose. We are forced to sell our bodies so that we can eat and live. And the price which is given us for this is only enough so that we will have the strength to labor longer for the profits of others. Today we are not put up on platforms and sold at the courthouse square. But we are forced to sell our strength, our time, our souls during almost every hour that we live. We have been freed from one kind of slavery only to be delivered into another. Is this freedom? Are we yet free men? "- Carson McCullers , The heart is a lonely hunter
Othmane wrote: ""All that we own is our bodies. And we sell our bodies every day we live. We sell them when we go out in the morning to our jobs and when we labor all day. We are forced to sell at any price, at an..."Thanks for this profound quote, Othmane. Indeed, it's true.
Jasmine wrote: "Great quote, Elham."Hi, Jasmine! Thank you for commenting.
Yeah, it's really a great quote. Victor Hugo is amazing.
