“At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.”

—  Victor Hugo, book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885

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