no one calls me genius and gets away with it

In the Land of the Dead

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“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

Literacy crisis WHO? This was said in the most vocal fried Californian accent ever. I hope The Girls enjoy some Russian lit this summer.

Actual quote was like, "He should have been dancing at the Chaumière, as young people have a moral obligation to do."

Per aspera ad astra

"in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless."

“Long live the Republic! I am one of them.”

Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant glance of the transfigured drunken man.

He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras.

"Finish both of us at one blow," said he.

And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him;

"Do you permit it?"

Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile.

This smile was not ended when the report resounded.

Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed.

Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt.”

- ‘Les Miserables’ (Victor Hugo) : Volume 5, Book 1, Chapter 23 [‘Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk’]