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Religion, Society, and Nature! these are the three struggles of man.

— Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), trans. W. Moy Thomas, Preface

What, then, is the devil-fish? It is the sea vampire.

— Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), trans. W. Moy Thomas, Part II, Book IV, Chapter II

In the Channel Islands they are called pieuvres.

— Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), trans. W. Moy Thomas, Part II, Book IV, Chapter II

At the moment when the vessel vanished on the line of the horizon, the head of Gilliatt disappeared. Nothing was visible now but the sea.

— Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), trans. W. Moy Thomas, Part III, final chapter

To the island of Guernsey, severe yet kind, my present asylum, perhaps my tomb.

— Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), trans. W. Moy Thomas, dedication

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