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| 8b558cf | we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Why, we have come almost to looking upon real life as an effort, almost as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books | notes-from-underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| dc9bd86 | Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life! | thanks | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 9b599ff | Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be asked of me. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b877b01 | For the direct, lawful, immediate fruit of consciousness is inertia - that is, a conscious sitting with folded arms. I've already mentioned this above. I repeat, I emphatically repeat: ingenuous people and active figures are all active simply because they are dull and narrow minded. How to explain it? Here's how: as a consequence of their narrow-mindedness, they take the most immediate and secondary causes for the primary ones, and thus bec.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 216f2f7 | I left proud, but with my spirit crushed. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8915c7d | You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 1098fe6 | LADY CROOM: ....My lake is drained to a ditch for no purpose I can understand, unless it be that snipe and curlew have deserted three counties so that they may be shot in our swamp. What you painted as forest is a mean plantation, your greenery is mud, your waterfall is wet mud, and your mount is an opencast mine for the mud that was lacking in the dell. (Pointing through the window) What is that cowshed? NOAKES: The hermitage, my lady? LAD.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| cf04964 | To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existence of a ghost). | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 8eee03c | No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?" Riley burped. "The Take That are most melodic. And God bless Harry Potter is all I can say. If not for him, all of London would have been consumed by the dark arts." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| cde8c41 | If we make it through this, we will be friends. Bonded by trauma. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 323c890 | People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 6f121f4 | That's what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy." Artemis's cool eyes glared at them from the screen. "So which is it?" asked Foaly. "A genius or crazy?" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f7cd1fd | There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 46445cb | Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d6c8703 | If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to be in full possession of viral force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush toward a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in ones's breast lounges which breath, a heart which beats, a will which reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, to have children, to .. | les-misérables les-miserables-books quotes victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| 5e4ef87 | Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2bab987 | There are no bad herbs or bad men; there are only bad cultivators. | life | Victor Hugo | |
| 8613b4d | The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 80c116d | The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5579788 | Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b8723a2 | Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go! | giving goodness les-misérables wealth | Victor Hugo | |
| d712955 | You asked me why I saved you. You have forgotten a villain who tried to carry you off one night,- a villain to whom the very next day you brought relief upon their infamous pillory. A drop of water and a little pity are more than my whole life can ever repay. You have forgotten that villain; but he remembers." ~Quasimodo to Esmeralda~" | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3cc5826 | He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f8ecfcb | In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236) | Victor Hugo | ||
| 33c5f29 | At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d8586bd | Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread"." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 07a3990 | What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 6f0e165 | All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 92eea25 | War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of it... as it stands now it's the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 19c4171 | Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8e2d90a | But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5b486c6 | The question of how things will settle down is the only important question... | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a4e7410 | I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d67bf0f | Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7f19757 | I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home. | Chris Offutt | ||
| bc39e8c | That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 7a1a07d | The last time we were here," I said, "I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you." | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 48a39bd | How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes--how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 9e706e5 | People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 5c655a3 | Miranda was nineteen. Her experience with men consisted of Winston and himself. Both of whom had heretofore been brotherly figures. The poor girl must be confused as hell. Winston had suddenly decided that she was Venus, Queen Elizabeth, and the Virgin Mary all rolled into one,and Turner had all but forced himself on her. Not exactly an average day in the life of a young country miss | humor lady | Julia Quinn | |
| 7eb79c7 | I don't want to destroy your dreams.' 'They were never my dreams until I met you ... a dream you gave me.' 'That doesn't mean I can take it away. | Julia Quinn | ||
| fe9cd8b | The only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth.'" "What about 'More, Gareth'?" "He almost kept a straith face. "That will be acceptable." | hyacinth-bridgerton | Julia Quinn | |
| 9d98330 | In his heart, she'd been smiling for him. But now she was smiling at Colin Bridgerton, he of the famous charm and sparkling green eyes. | humor | Julia Quinn | |
| 7cbbfdd | Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen," Harriet said. "There's an evil queen?" Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. "Of course," Harriet replied. "Every good play has an evil queen." Frances actually raised her hand. "And a un--" "Don't say it," Elizabeth growled. Frances crossed her eyes, put her knife to her forehead in an approximation of a horn, and neighed." | don-t-even-ask julia-quinn | Julia Quinn |