ten day les mis meme: [1/10] favorite male character
Grantaire
nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed
As ‘twere a careless trifle
Macbeth (I.iv.283)
They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistols shots, with blows of the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had crawled. They were one against sixty.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
It has been estimated that […] the civilized world, in every part of the globe, fires off daily one hundred and fifty useless cannon shots. At six francs per shot, that amounts to nine hundred thousand francs a day, or three hundred million a year, gone up in smoke. This is only one item. Meanwhile, the poor are dying of hunger.
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
why the fuck isn’t tumblr going batshit crazy about what’s happening in syria
approx. 640 people have died, mostly children, in a nerve gas attack and i don’t see shit about it
article, because people need to know about this, it’s horrible
Thank you so much I have family members dying there
And if I should die in the fight to be free,
Where the fighting is hardest, there will I be.
what is it we admire about the soldier? it certainly is not that he goes into battle. what we admire about the soldier is that he has the power of losing his own life for the life of a greater cause; that he holds his personal suffering of no account; that he flings down in the rage of battle his all and says, “i will stand or fall with this cause.”
“It is he! My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me.”