Victor Hugo Quote

Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface!


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface!

Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface!

Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface!

Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface!