I am like an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores... - Victor Hugo, The hunchback of NotreDame

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door! - Victor Hugo, in Hunchback of Notre Dame.

There is nothing more annoying than hearing a calling bell in the middle of deep sleep :| --self