Victor Hugo quote about death from The Man Who Laughs - Of what butterfly is, then, this earthly life the grub?
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Of what butterfly is, then, this earthly life the grub?
 Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs (1869). copy citation

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Author Victor Hugo
Source The Man Who Laughs
Topic death life metamorphosis
Date 1869
Language English
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“Shall a man drag himself thus along with such adherence to dust and corruption, with such vicious tastes, such an abdication of right, or such abjectness that one feels inclined to crush him under foot? Of what butterfly is, then, this earthly life the grub?
What! in the crowd which hungers and which denies everywhere, and before all, the questions of crime and shame (the inflexibility of the law producing laxity of conscience), is there no child that grows but to be stunted, no virgin but matures for sin, no rose that blooms but for the slime of the snail?” source
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