● We will fight and we will fall. Till the angels save us all.
● "I promise this drink is my last one. I know I fucked up again. Don't leave me, I'll hate myself until I die."
● "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. Don't disgrace the barricade!"
This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He seemed to be rendered suddenly sober.
He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-
"Let me sleep here."
"Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras.
But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, replied:-
"Let me sleep here,-until I die."
● The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
● If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow."
● Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.
● Im Elend drängen sich die Leiber zusammen wie in der Kälte, doch die Herzen entfernen sich voneinander.
● Es gibt ein Schweigen, das lügt.
● Der Zeiger, der über das Zifferblatt der Uhr vorrückt, rückt auch in den Seelen vor.
