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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed5ee35 | There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b8ec7da | Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence. | les-misérables politics victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| 32d5af9 | Books are cold but sure friends. | reading | Victor Hugo | |
| 12dd939 | Books are cold but safe friends. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 95bbf0e | In a vast space left free between the crowd and the fire, a young girl was dancing. Whether this young girl was a human being, a fairy, or an angel, is what Gringoire, sceptical philosopher and ironical poet that he was, could not decide at the first moment, so fascinated was he by this dazzling vision. | hunchback-of-notre-dame | Victor Hugo | |
| c302d8f | Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could only be defined by their aims. There were no 'foreign' or 'civil' wars, only wars that were just or unjust. Until the great universal concord could be arrived at, warfare, at least when it was the battle between the urgent future and the dragging past, might be unavoidable. How could such a wa.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6c3f450 | to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand army, to conquer the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what greater thing is there?' 'To be free', said Combeferre. | hugo les-misérables | Victor Hugo | |
| b1083e7 | I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example. | grantaire useless | Victor Hugo | |
| bda8f8e | In short, between men and women you want..." "Equality." "Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures." "I said equality. I didn't say identity." | Victor Hugo | ||
| ec88f9d | Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3699da2 | The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2e87ed4 | Where there is law there is injustice | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a5965e2 | Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the mountain of bliss he had anticipated. That realization showed him the eternal error men make by imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes. When first he united his life with hers and donned civilian clothes, he felt the de.. | novel realistic-fiction russian-literature society-novel | Leo Tolstoy | |
| b7c8479 | Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? | hate world | Leo Tolstoy | |
| baa44f7 | I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but... | loss love regret | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3aed18e | Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unhappy families are all unhappy in different ways. Of course he's got it totally wrong, completely ass-backward. Happiness is infinite in its variety, and happy people, happy families, can find their joy in so many different ways.... And all the unhappy families are all pretty much the same. All types of misery are identical at the core... | Elizabeth Wurtzel | ||
| dbfc679 | Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 74d32fa | He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him. A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to come with the doll and sit before a man in love, and began caressing his doll as the lover caressed the woman he loved, it would be distasteful to t.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 0f0f408 | He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 6035079 | The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 3a65fa5 | Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 73fd47f | Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked upon as himself. And all this terrible change has come about because he had ceased to believe himself and had taken to believing others. This he had done because it was too difficult to live believing one's self: believing one's self, one had to decide every question, not in favour of one's animal I, which was always seeking for easy gratifica.. | character honesty reflection spirit | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 15ab110 | At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut o.. | war | Leo Tolstoy | |
| d938bca | Ivan Iylich saw that he was dying, and was in continual despair. At the bottom of his heart Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying; but so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not grasp it - he was utterly unable to grasp it. The example of the syllogism that he had learned in Kiseveter's logic - Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal - had seemed to him all his life correct only as regards Caius, but not at all r.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 36624b6 | At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 0bc2538 | A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f2e065d | After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince Andrey stood at the window, talking to the ladies, and listened to her. In the middle of a phrase, Prince Andrey ceased speaking, and felt suddenly a lump in his throat from tears, the possibility of which he had never dreamed of in himself. He looked at Natasha singing, and something new and blissful stirred in his soul. He was happy, and at .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2e0975d | T)he philosopher is a perpetual beginner. This means that he accepts nothing as established from what men or scientists believe they know. This also means that philosophy itself is an ever-renewed experiment of its own beginning , that it consists entirely in describing this beginning, and finally, that radical reflection is conscious of its own dependence on an unreflected life that is its initial, constant, and final situation. | wonder | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | |
| 7d39b49 | One of the things that confuses me is never really knowing when something comes up from my past, whether it really happened that way, or if that was the way it seemed to be at the time, or if I'm inventing it. I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 2a5ba46 | Light and unfeeling. Drifting and expanding through time and space. And then, as I know I am about to pierce the crust of existence, like a flying fish leaping out of the sea, I feel the pull from below. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 438ee7b | You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you left off. I don't blame you. It's your body and your brain-and your life, even though you weren't able to make much use of it. I don't have the right to take it away from you. Nobody does. Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?... | flowers-for-algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| 02bcfc1 | Why do you have to make it so difficult to apologize?' she burst out, dogging his heels as he crossed the room to gather the rest of his things. 'And why, pray tell, should I make it easy?' he returned. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 6060b26 | It was funny, he reflected later, how one's life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it's simply ... not | Julia Quinn | ||
| 0fa6f5b | Well, for one thing, about whether you'll make a good husband," she snapped back, finally goaded into anger. He drew back. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" "Your past behavior, to start with," she replied, narrowing her eyes. "You haven't exactly been the model of Christian rectitude." "This, coming from the woman who ordered me to strip off my clothing earlier this afternoon?" he taunted. "Don't be ugly," she said in a low voice. .. | Julia Quinn | ||
| abd26fe | She slid a slim volume of poetry off the shelf and returned to her chair, swishing her rather unnattractive skirts before she sat down. Benedict frowned. He'd never really noticed before how ugly her dress was. Not as bad as the one Mrs. Cabtree had lent her, but certainly not anything designed to bring out the best in a woman. He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it,of course, but maybe if her current garments were acci.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9f623ad | And what renders him so unmarriageable?" Eloise asked. Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should set her cap for Michael. "Well?" Eloise prodded. "He could never remain faithful to one woman," Francesca said, "and I doubt you'd be willing to put up with infidelities." "No," Eloise murmured, "not unless he'd be willing to put up with severe bodily injury." -- | Julia Quinn | ||
| 59d6f0a | His leg throbbed, but his heart felt lighter, and for the first time in years, the world seemed to be filled with possibility. "I love you," he said. And he thought to himself, That makes five. Five times he'd said it. It wasn't nearly enough. "And I love you." She bent down and kissed his leg. He touched his face and felt tears. He hadn't realized he was crying. "I love you," he said again." | julia-quinn sarah the-sum-of-all-kisses | Julia Quinn | |
| 92095d6 | Oh, Daniel," his mother exclaimed, catching him before he could make his escape, "do come join us. We're trying to decide if Honoria should be married in lavender-blue or blue-lavender." He opened his mouth to ask the difference, then decided against it. "Blue-lavender," he said firmly, not having a clue as to what he was talking about. "Do you think so?" his mother responded, frowning. "I really think lavender-blue would be better." The ob.. | daniel julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 266ddce | The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors | Julia Quinn | ||
| 8be9a64 | Children," Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. "I am never quite certain if I'm glad I had them." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 1344143 | When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 2de551d | Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale." | Julia Quinn | ||
| d13d17a | You are so beautiful," he whispered. He stepped closer, but before she could touch him he took her hand and brought it to his lips. "When I saw you tonight I think my heart stopped beating." "And is it now?" she whispered. He took her hand and laid it over his heart. She could feel it pounding beneath his skin, almost hear it reverberating through her own body. He was so strong, and so solid, and so wonderfully male. "Do you know what I.. | love share | Julia Quinn | |
| 6fdc29a | I think you're going to break more hearts this spring than I'll be able to count." "It isn't your job to count them," he said, his voice quiet and hard. "No, it isn't, is it?" She looked over at him and smile wryly. "But I'm going to end up doing it all the same, won't I?" "And why is that?" She didn't seem to have an answer to that, and then, just when he was sure she would say no more, she whispered, "Because I won't be able to stop mysel.. | julia quinn |