Random Quote Spam
So, I picked up a copy of Les Misérables (the novel by Victor Hugo) at the bookstore before the trip, and I actually started flipping through it today.
I love the preface.
So long as civilisation shall permit law and custom to impose a social condemnation that creates artificial hells on earth, complicating our divine destiny with a fatality driven by humans; so long as the three problems of the age - man degraded by poverty, woman demoralized by starvation, childhood stunted by physical and spiritual night - remain unsolved; as long as people may be suffocated, in certain regions, by society; in other words, taking a longer view, so long as ignorance and misery endure on earth, books such as this cannot but be useful.
(Quoted from the Barnes and Noble Classics edition, page 3.)
It was first published in 1862. And yet it still applies today.
(Why yes, this is me randomly doing something pointless instead of working on RP or fanfics for a few minutes.)
...Meanwhile, I think my spacebar is acting strangely. Weird...
I love the preface.
So long as civilisation shall permit law and custom to impose a social condemnation that creates artificial hells on earth, complicating our divine destiny with a fatality driven by humans; so long as the three problems of the age - man degraded by poverty, woman demoralized by starvation, childhood stunted by physical and spiritual night - remain unsolved; as long as people may be suffocated, in certain regions, by society; in other words, taking a longer view, so long as ignorance and misery endure on earth, books such as this cannot but be useful.
(Quoted from the Barnes and Noble Classics edition, page 3.)
It was first published in 1862. And yet it still applies today.
(Why yes, this is me randomly doing something pointless instead of working on RP or fanfics for a few minutes.)
...Meanwhile, I think my spacebar is acting strangely. Weird...