Showing posts with label Les Misérables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Les Misérables. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2009

Good reason to write a novel

I condemn slavery, I banish poverty,
I teach the ignorant, I treat
disease, I lighten the night,
I hate hatred.*

Victor Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885)

*That is what I am, and that is why I have written Les Misérables.




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