Revolutionary Optimism

Will the future ever arrive?

Should we continue to look upwards?

Is the light we can see in the sky one of those
which will presently be extinguished?

The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in
the depth, small, isolated, a pin-point,
brilliant but threatened on all sides by
the dark forces that surrounds it;

Nevertheless, no more danger than a star in
the jaws of the clouds.

- Victor Hugo