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965e05e Zhivot't e neprek'snato gubene na onova, koeto obichame. Виктор-Юго Victor Hugo
3d8911c He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a single flame; there was in him nothing of the prophet or the mystic. He was a simple soul who loved, and that was all. faith Victor Hugo
0cc8ee6 Let's not bring flame where light is enough. Victor Hugo
6722c60 Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. Victor Hugo
329fb7c two principal problems. First problem: To produce wealth. Second problem: To distribute it.... England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth wonderfully; she distributes it badly.... [she has] a grandeur ill constituted, in which all the material elements are combined, and into which no moral element enters. Communism think they have solved the second problem. They are mistaken. They destroy production... Victor Hugo
d4e1fdc When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. Victor Hugo
7369301 The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it has a self. The self of infinity is God. Victor Hugo
9c8a46a And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white marble; it gets everywhere, appears under your chisel at any moment without warning. Your statue has to be redone. Victor Hugo
7b79dc2 People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them. Victor Hugo
56961cb He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend. Victor Hugo
915297e vanity. Victor Hugo
e3c26c7 You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. It does not ask any comer whether he has a name but whether he has an affliction. Victor Hugo
cf82bd0 The duty of the inn-keeper,is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the chimney-corner,the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the feather-bed.. Victor Hugo
6675624 All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that is soaked. Victor Hugo
1502952 Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such momen.. Victor Hugo
2cea861 Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls. Victor Hugo
33995e5 Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. Victor Hugo
6471a61 They fathomed principle; they attached themselves to right. They longed for the absolute, they caught glimpses of the infinite realisations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, pushes the mind towards the boundless, makes it float in the illimitable. There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo
0fff11c Confiar es a veces abandonar. victor-hugo Victor Hugo
4af353c It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory nations growth Victor Hugo
9bb923a Puesto que no hay remedio, tengamos valor con la muerte. Abracemos esta horrible idea con pecho firme; consideremosla cara a cara. Pidamosle cuenta de lo que es; sepamos que quiere de nosotros; volvamosla en todos sentidos; descifremos el enigma y miremos de antemano en el sepulcro. Victor Hugo
cb7501e You have knocked at every door?" she asked. "Yes." "Have you knocked at that one there?" "No." "Knock there." Victor Hugo
4d271c2 Had he not had a greater purpose, the saving not of his life but of his soul, the resolve to become a good and honourable man and upright man as the bishop required him - had not that been his true a deepest intention? Now he talked of closing the door on the past when, God help him, he would be reopening the door by committing an infamous act, not merely that of a thief but of the most odious of thieves. He would be robbing a man of his li.. Victor Hugo
2a4aab0 Hay siempre en el pensamiento cierta cantidad de rebelion interior, y le irritaba sentirla dentro de si. victor-hugo Victor Hugo
e41b94b Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it." Victor Hugo
1e10b35 Bonapartist democrat." "Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour." Victor Hugo
e904a71 It would have been difficult to say what was the nature of this look, and whence proceeded the flame that flashed from it. It was a fixed gaze, which was, nevertheless, full of trouble and tumult. And, from the profound immobility of his whole body, barely agitated at intervals by an involuntary shiver, as a tree is moved by the wind; from the stiffness of his elbows, more marble than the balustrade on which they leaned; or the sight of the.. Victor Hugo
63abcd1 Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there. Victor Hugo
5a4e57a Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side by side, each through the other, without ever speaking of the matter, without reproaches, each wearing a smile. Victor Hugo
103a7cc Tatkala semesta menciut menjadi sesosok makhluk, tatkala sesosok makhluk meluas bahkan sampai menjangkau Tuhan, maka itulah cinta. les-misérables victor-hugo Victor Hugo
ca38f31 A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd. Victor Hugo
a7a5bec This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. Victor Hugo
c0fd26a gallantry Victor Hugo
2db35dd and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here. Victor Hugo
cbaf045 Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am nothing; I call myself Count Nothing, the senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Will I after my death? No. What am I? A little dust surrounding an organism. What do I have to do on this earth? I have the choice of pain or pleasure. Where will pain lead me? To nothing. But I will have suffered. Where will pleasure lead.. Victor Hugo
e3ad367 But who among us is perfect? Even the greatest strategists have their eclipses, and the greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, 'That is all there was!' But twist them all together and you have something tremendous. Victor Hugo
bc5202d A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure. Victor Hugo
328b293 The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul. To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to a single man, were.. Victor Hugo
c803a73 You have no effect on me with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing bric-a-brac from Artaxerxes. I dispense you from quieting me. Anyway, I'm sad. What would you have me tell you? Man is wicked, man is deformed; the butterfly has succeeded, man has missed. God failed on this animal. A crowd gives you nothing but a choice of ugliness. The first man you meet will be a wretch. 'Femme' rhymes with 'infame', woman is infamous. Yes, I have the spl.. Victor Hugo
8eebafb People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. learning knowledge Victor Hugo
11b42ac From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of con.. Victor Hugo
b43c336 Be fair, my friends! To be the empire of such an emperor, what a splendid destiny for a nation, when that nation is France, and when it adds its genius to the genius of such a man ! To appear and to reign, to march and to triumph, to have every capital for a staging area, to take his grenadiers and make kings of them, to decree the downfall of dynasties, to transfigure Europe at a double quickstep, so men feel, when you threaten, that you a.. Victor Hugo
ecf4c2b My friends, remember this: There are no bad herbs, and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators. Victor Hugo
d06640c He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day Victor Hugo