capitolr: not that it's at the top of my to-do list or anything (i vaguely aspire to be)
Grantaire ([personal profile] capitolr) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet 2018-05-19 08:02 am (UTC)

You care about the end result. You care about the concept of the people, the concept of improving quality of life, and yet you only care about things in the narrow scope of being related to revolution.

[He'd meant what he said: he was wrong about what they would accomplish.

But he also means this: that they didn't accomplish that because this revolution was built on the strength of ideas themselves. They accomplished it through sacrifice. Through luck and, strangely, the inaction of people who didn't participate. History is often written by winners, but the people who witness history's defeats are the people who pen the next chapter.]


The reason I never believed in your revolution is that revolution is a heartless thing. It cares not who it chews up and spits out and you are sometimes too much like revolution, Enjolras.

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