Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables: "?"

The publisher's response: "!"

“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and so…”

“The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding ev…”

“They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We m…”

“All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.”