“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”
—
Victor Hugo
,
book
Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Last update June 3, 2021.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another." by Victor Hugo?
Victor Hugo 308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
“Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Sören Kierkegaard
(1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)
“… as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair
David Gubbins
(1947) British university teacher
Explosions generate elastic waves by an impulsive change in volume in the material. Small explosive charges are used in controlled-source seismic experiments in which the waves penetrate only a few kilometres into the earth.
[Seismology and plate tectonics, 1990, http://books.google.com/books?id=tZRxPzwoChIC&pg=PA12] (p. 12)
Seismology and Plate Tectonics (1990)
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
Source: The Passage Trilogy, The Passage (2010)
“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”
Francis Bacon
(1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
C. West Churchman
(1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Design of Inquiring Systems (1971), p. 238 as cited in: Charles François (2006) "Ethics and enlightened personal responsibility" in: Wisdom, Knowledge, and Management. C.West Churchman and Related Works Series Volume 2, 2006, pp 161-168