"Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket handkerchief."
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Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862), as translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1887), Bk. IV, Ch. 1
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Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885
französischer Schriftsteller
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