They say that it is, nothing, that one does not suffer, that it is an easy end; that death in this why is very much simplified.Ah! then, what do they call they call this agony of six weeks, this summing up in one day? What then is the anguish of this irreparable day, which is passing so slowly and yet so fast? What is this ladder of tortures which terminates in the scaffold?
-Victor Hugo
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