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41 " The two friends set out towards "Eve's Apple." It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them. "
― Victor Hugo , The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
42 " Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will. "
43 " Want de liefde is als een boom, die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die blijft uitlopen ook als het hart verbrijzeld is. "
44 " in becoming malicious he only picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded. He "
45 " Ceci tuera cela "
46 " He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality "
47 " He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings, saints and bishops who at least did not laugh in his face and looked at him with only tranquillity and benevolence. The other statues, those of monsters and demons, had no hatred for him – he resembled them too closely for that. It was rather the rest of mankind that they jeered at. The saints were his friends and blessed him; the monsters were his friends and kept watch over him. He would sometimes spend whole hours crouched before one of the statues in solitary conversation with it. If anyone came upon him then he would run away like a lover surprised during a serenade. "
48 " One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water. "
49 " You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. "
50 " Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to put forth green leaves over a heart in ruins. And there is this unaccountable circumstance attending it, that the blinder the passion the more tenacious it is. Never is it stronger than when it is most unreasonable. "
51 " To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee? "
52 " At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner. "
53 " The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... "
54 " If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66) "
55 " But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. "
56 " by making himself a priest made himself a demon. "
57 " Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. "
58 " The owl goes not into the nest of the lark. "
59 " When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "
60 " There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. "