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WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/hugo-victor/1990/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Victor Hugo</b></a></p><blockquote>Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.<br>&nbsp;<br><i>[La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté. Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c’est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Victor Hugo</b> (1802-1885) French writer<br><i>Les Misérables</i>, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 2 “Eponine,” ch. 1 (4.2.1) (1862) [tr. Denny (1976)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/hugo-victor/1990/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/hugo-victor/1990/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=victorhugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>victorhugo</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lesmiserables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lesmiserables</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lesmiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lesmiz</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=contemplation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contemplation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=daydreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>daydreaming</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=intellect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellect</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mediation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mediation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reverie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reverie</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thinking</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=thought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thought</span></a></p>
Lee Watkins<p>Marius regrets giving his last five francs away. If he'd still had them he could have caught a cab. Dejected he returns home.</p><p>But at home he overhears Jondrette's plotting, and now he might be able to save the old man and his daughter.</p><p>Fate is a strange thing, and even five francs down we might be better off.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/lesmiserables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lesmiserables</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/victorhugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>victorhugo</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/hugo-victor/77838/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Victor Hugo</b></a></p><blockquote>A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used; it allays the sometimes virulent fever of the over-active mind, like a cool wind blowing through the brain to smooth the harshness of untrammelled thought; it bridges here and there the gaps, brings things into proportion and blunts the sharper angles. But too much submerges and drowns.<br>&nbsp;<br><i>[Une certaine quantité de rêverie est bonne, comme un narcotique à dose discrète. Cela endort les fièvres, quelquefois dures, de l’intelligence en travail, et fait naître dans l’esprit une vapeur molle et fraîche qui corrige les contours trop âpres de la pensée pure, comble çà et là des lacunes et des intervalles, lie les ensembles et estompe les angles des idées. Mais trop de rêverie submerge et noie.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Victor Hugo</b> (1802-1885) French writer<br><i>Les Misérables</i>, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 2 “Eponine,” ch. 1 (4.2.1) (1862) [tr. Denny (1976)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/hugo-victor/77838/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/hugo-victor/77838/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=victorhugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>victorhugo</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lesmiserables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lesmiserables</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lesmiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lesmiz</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=contemplation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contemplation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=daydream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>daydream</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=relaxation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>relaxation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reverie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reverie</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=thought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thought</span></a></p>
Variety<p>‘Call My Agent!’ Star Camille Cottin on Playing a ‘Real Monster of Literature’ in Fred Cavayé’s Upcoming ‘Les Misérables’ Adaptation: ‘I’m Stressed, but Why Not?’<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Variety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Variety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Global</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CamilleCottin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CamilleCottin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KarlovyVaryFilmFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KarlovyVaryFilmFestival</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KVIFF2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KVIFF2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LesMiserables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LesMiserables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LocarnoFilmFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocarnoFilmFestival</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OutofLove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OutofLove</span></a></p><p><a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/global/camille-cottin-les-miserables-1236464543/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">variety.com/2025/film/global/c</span><span class="invisible">amille-cottin-les-miserables-1236464543/</span></a></p>
Deadline<p>Fred Cavaye’s ‘Les Misérables’ With Vincent Lindon, Tahar Rahim, Camille Cottin, Benjamin Lavernhe &amp; Noémie Merlant Begins Filming In Bordeaux<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FredCavaye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredCavaye</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LesMiserables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LesMiserables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VincentLindon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VincentLindon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://deadline.com/2025/07/fred-cavaye-les-miserables-lindon-rahim-cottin-start-shoot-1236462181/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">deadline.com/2025/07/fred-cava</span><span class="invisible">ye-les-miserables-lindon-rahim-cottin-start-shoot-1236462181/</span></a></p>
Carolleisa<p>Should we invite Ukraine? And France?<br>they seem to know how it is done❗️ </p><p>🎶It is the music of a people<br>Who will not be slaves again<br>When the beating of your heart<br>Echoes the beating of the drums🪘 <br>Claude Michel Schonberg</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BastilleDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BastilleDay</span></a> <br>Are you ready?</p><p>From my favorite Broadway Show:<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LesMis%C3%A9rables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LesMisérables</span></a></p><p>“Do You Hear the People Sing?” <br><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=1q82twrdr0U&amp;si=PVHE-2HTunA3STxt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=1q82twrdr0</span><span class="invisible">U&amp;si=PVHE-2HTunA3STxt</span></a></p>
ChrisLes Misérables is one of my favourite musicals of all times. I've seen it half a dozen times and was very excited to rewatch it on my latest <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/London?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#London</a> trip - basically after over 20 years.<br> <br> Now, I was quite disappointed. Not only because of the performance of Javert and Eponine. But more about the general staging.<br> <br> The last time it was shown in the Palace Theatre on a big rotating stage and the new smaller theatre it is in now didn't really do any good to play. Maybe the stage was not the issue but the choreographic, which often felt disconnected from the actually lyrics that where sung. Javert looking to the crowd but somehow noticing Valjean pulled a knife in his back. "Empty chairs at empty tables" not being staged in the cafe. And then there where a lot of scenes where I thought "god, don't talk to ME, you are having a dialog with the character besides you". Or where the only thing a character does is folding hands to pray 3 times in 3 minutes during one song, putting down their cap down and up and down and up or just randomly ran to the back of the stage to run in front again. And then it felt rushed as fuck. The tempo was so high that it felt out of place. I compared the length of the complete symphonic recording with the time I was sitting in the theatre and they definitely pumped up the speed of the music. I also missed a scene at the beginning where Valjean rescued a man in jail by lifting a heavy wooden beam - which left a gap later when Javert talks about having seen only one man this strong during another accident.<br> <br> The staging felt half-hearted and not thought through and even worse: it has lost it's epicness.<br> <br> I think they didn't do a good job in shrinking the production down. Especially compared to the new production of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Phantom?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Phantom</a> that I visited last year in Vienna. There, it was absolutely amazing to see how they changed it staging to the better. Everything made more sense. Everything felt more "realistic" and conclusive.<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lesmiserables?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lesmiserables</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/musical?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#musical</a>
UK<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/212703/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/212703/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ‘All the world’s a stage’: Exploring London’s West End | Columnists Abroad | Opinion <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BroadwayTheatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BroadwayTheatre</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DailyCollegian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DailyCollegian</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>England</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreatBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatBritain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LesMis%C3%A9rables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LesMisérables</span></a>(musical) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/london" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>london</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PennStateColumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennStateColumns</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PsuAbroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsuAbroad</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PsuAbroadColumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsuAbroadColumns</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PsuColumn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsuColumn</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
London<p>‘All the world’s a stage’: Exploring London’s West End | Columnists Abroad | Opinion</p><p>“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” This brilliant William Shakespeare quote…<br><a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GB</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>England</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Headlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Headlines</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/broadwaytheatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broadwaytheatre</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/dailycollegian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dailycollegian</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreatBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatBritain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/lesmis%C3%A9rables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lesmisérables</span></a>(musical) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/london" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>london</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/pennstatecolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pennstatecolumns</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/psuabroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psuabroad</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/psuabroadcolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psuabroadcolumns</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/psucolumn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psucolumn</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/212531/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/212531/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
WIST Quotations

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will be colossal.
 
[Que l’un combatte pour son drapeau, et que l’autre combatte pour son idéal, et qu’ils s’imaginent tous les deux combattre pour la patrie; la lutte sera colossale.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 5 “Jean Valjean,” Book 1 “The War Between Four Walls,” ch. 21 (5.1.21) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/77121/

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Jeff

After Trump went to see Les Misérables a few weeks ago, a reporter asked if he identified more with Valjean or Javert, and he couldn't answer.

I was listening to the original Broadway cast recording today and I realized that Trump would identify most with Monsieur Thénardier.

#uspol#lesmiserables
WIST Quotations

A quotation from Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
 
[Il y a des gens qui observent les règles de l’honneur comme on observe les étoiles, de très loin.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 5 “Jean Valjean,” Book 2 “The War Between Four Walls,” ch. 21 (5.2.21) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76966/

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William Lindsey :toad:

Just as many children of the generation that brought Hitler to power in Germany later asked their parents, "How could you possibly have saluted and cheered and believed in that man? What were you thinking?"

Will those who cheer the cruelty today one day feel any shame for what they supported and set in motion? Or will they just keep on denying what they accomplished via their votes?


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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

Fuck's sake, don't pretend that Trump is an Inspector Javert. Javert is a morally inflexible man with nigh-unassailable faith in the legal system which, as Hugo shows as a central theme of the whole damn book, is an unworkable and twisted morass. And at the end, when that faith has finally shattered, Javert jumps off a bridge out of guilt and self-loathing.

Trump is a Thenardier.

#lesmiserables#Trump#uspol
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