Thursday, December 23, 2010

'one must do the whole evil'

'When one does evil one must do the whole evil. To be only half a monster is insanity! There is ecstasy in an extreme of crime.'
—Claude Frollo in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame of Paris (1831) (trans. John Sturrock 1978)
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  1. MattDecember 23, 2010 at 9:21 AM

    Original: "Quand on fait le mal, il faut faire tout le mal. Démence de s'arrêter à un milieu dans le monstrueux! L'extrémité du crime a des délires de joie."

    Translation by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1888): "When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly. 'Tis madness to halt midway in the monstrous! The extreme of crime has its deliriums of joy."

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