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| 0aa417a | Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| f814f25 | GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current... | metaphor life | Tom Stoppard | |
| 2c02491 | GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear | science | Tom Stoppard | |
| 7e481be | His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive. | science the-body | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| cd78e86 | No fue como si no me hubiera oido, como si no me hubiera visto; fue como si los oidos que tenia no sirvieran para oir, como si los ojos no sirvieran para ver. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| eb2ace4 | One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood | science | Tim Flannery | |
| 45fbcd2 | God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. | Simon Singh | ||
| a1d776e | Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionaire. And besides, he was certain that Art could hear the thumping from the security desk. | humor humor-inspirational | Eoin Colfer | |
| 942d90c | She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counselors are nothing more than misguided do-gooders with degrees." -Artemis Fowl" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c91683d | Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 5aed50e | He's a gem, sir. I wish I had one just like him." He rattled the ring of keys on Artemis's belt. "And what are these?" Artemis scratched his head. "Uh, keys?" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 4f6da4e | I'm on my feet, pacing around the room, punching a fist into my palm, which I stop doing when I realise how drama queen it feels. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 08130f6 | Trouble didn't just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| d84a444 | Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot." -- | reading humor gardening | Bill Richardson | |
| 9118612 | What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defencelessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: a human soul for a hunk of bread. Poverty offers and society accepts. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cb6428d | The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 02d3a6b | M. Mabeuf's political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 399276f | ltshkk: ltswWs ldhy ySyb lfkr | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7a0fd3c | He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5a4ffde | If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2a1588a | My greatness does not extend to this shelf. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ca3bc70 | On ne lit pas impunement des niaiseries | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9fc6c32 | Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6fa3e82 | Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c0af26a | He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so powerfully intervened; that human justice from which he had snatched its prey; all those tigers whose jaws perforce remained empty; those myrmidons, those judges, those executioners, all that royal power which he, poor, insignificant being, had foiled with t.. | notre-dame the-hunchback-of-notre-dame hunchback-of-notre-dame paris victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| b95632b | Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant glance of the transfigured drunken man. He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: ".. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a0070f6 | If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 96250a0 | As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit; but it is a submission which makes the heart bleed. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 01f3836 | Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 810d50b | a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God | recluse mother | Victor Hugo | |
| 022be60 | Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6b36969 | fy m mD~ srqt rGyf lky '`ysh , lknny lywm 'srq sm lky `ysh . | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4af0abb | He who does not weep does not see. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 98bf94d | ql lrjl w hw yrf` qy`th btwD` :sydy hl ttfDl b'n tftH ly lbb l'qDy lylty hn ? f'jb lHrs bSwt 'jsh : n lsjn lys Hn@ , d`hm ylqwn lqbD `lyk f'ftH lk lbb `n Tyb khTr . | victor-hugo | فيكتور هيجو | |
| 60267ae | Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a2d64c2 | A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cfe651f | If looks could have killed, Susan would have been bleeding profusely from the forehead. | annoying | Julia Quinn | |
| 7863cb7 | Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority. And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them--or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibl.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c963ad1 | Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live," Levin said to himself." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2656ebe | He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 32b295a | I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time. | time | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 4b34282 | Send him to the devil, I'm busy. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| db744ba | Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no one could understand, and about the still greater insignificance of death, the meaning of which no one among the living could understand or explain. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4c5ec17 | I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'. | Leo Tolstoy |