The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. – Victor Hugo
Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude. – Jean Baudrillard