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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a653c50 | lHb hw tHy@ lmly'k@ llnjwm m 'shd Hzn lrwH s`@ yHznh lHb m 'kthr m ynqlb lmHbwb l~ m`bwd ftrr@ thGr `n bsm@ khTf@ tkfy lHml lrwH l~ qSwr l'Hlm b`D l'fkr Sl@ whnk 'wqt tjthw lrwH fyh `l~ rkbtyh dwn 'n tHfl ljsm w'wDrh lmHbwn ldhyn frq bynhm ldhr ykhd`wn ltny'y b'lf `dhr whmy khyly wl'lf hdh l tzwl Sf@ lHqyq@ `nh nhm l yktbwn lb`Dhm lb`D nhm l yrwn b`Dhm lb`D l nhm yjdwn ljm lGfyr mn wsy'l ltSl fhm ynyTwn dhlk btGryd lTywr w`byr lzhr wDHkt l'.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| eb45668 | Homo homini monstrum | monster | Victor Hugo | |
| b46db79 | There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 69154f5 | Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d0426a3 | When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime! | hunchback-of-notre-dame | Victor Hugo | |
| beadf5b | Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 11cb7b6 | An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 25e66bf | If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would say that it punishes you for comprehending it; but no, it rewards you for it; for it puts you into a hell where you feel God at your side. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4dd1929 | There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ee54a85 | When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness. | happiness inspirational les-misérables suffering sufffering | Victor Hugo | |
| ce41c86 | Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 828057a | So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 82ab27f | He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 683744a | I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6da3dd9 | I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d73e3c0 | The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 531d1cd | In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law - as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together and both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other only earns two thousand , or when lawyers and hussars, possessing no special qualifications, are appointed.. | economics government salaries supply-and-demand tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 17a470d | Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength. | perseverance strength | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 63607c1 | He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9a50a62 | I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live. He who has Love has God in him, and is in God - - because God is Love. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9d6ba26 | And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4da8b83 | Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At every step he found his former dreams disappointed, and new, unexpected surprises of happiness. He was happy; but on entering upon family life he saw at every step that it was utterly different from what he had imagined. At every step he experienced what a man would experience who, after admiring the smooth, happy course of a little boat o.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bae37ab | He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c415bc7 | Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2e00efb | I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| b8651f5 | But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud and content. All my heart is yours, sir; it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 1aad74d | Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait .. | goodbyes hurt lucy-snowe villette | Charlotte Brontë | |
| d574bfa | lqd mnHn llh -l~ Hdin m- lqdr@ `l~ Sn` qdrn b'nfsn. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 1eb1541 | Who you, Miss Snowe?"... "Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise." | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| d8030a5 | Do you think that I am a machine? That I can bear it? Do you think because I'm poor, plain, obsure, and little that I have no heart? That I'm without soul? I have as much heart as you and as much soul. And if God had given me as much beauty and wealth, I would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 37a9a38 | You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new. | siblings | Charlotte Brontë | |
| bd755b5 | Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 792770d | you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self, or than creatures feeble as you. besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissio.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| db07035 | I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 3c4fe61 | Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 7c86967 | They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 920c4b7 | Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.' I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be he.. | humor invasion irony native-americans parody reservations usa | Adam Rex | |
| 8ce875b | A poem should not mean But be. | Archibald MacLeish | ||
| bf18930 | Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd in one self place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 1d12802 | I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| bacd61f | But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. | happy think-for-yourself | Jon Krakauer | |
| ed89433 | the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 74159fd | Chastity and moral purity were qualities McCandless mulled over long and often. Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tol!stoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata," in which the nobleman-turned-ascetic denounces "the demands of the flesh." Several such passages are starred and highlighted in the dog-eared text, the margins filled with cryptic notes printed in McCandless's distinc!tive hand. .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 65de66b | What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain? | Bette Greene |