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1 We have just said that history passes through the sewer.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
2 The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
3 The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
4 In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you are, like ourselves, poor.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
5 Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES