“ A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. ”
 Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862). copy citation

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“When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice and as bold as fire.»
Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: «Patria.»” source

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