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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 070cd96 | Death is the ultimate negative. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 794a764 | People love nobody as much as they do their hatred. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 8075358 | Jon Spiro might have "stuff " that the military didn't have, but Artemis Fowl had "stuff " that humans had never seen." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| dcb0666 | In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 41f8387 | I'm not a person who stands still well. But the the earth is always in motion, and I like keeping up with it. I don't want just to exist. I want to know. I want to see. I want to understand. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| a038c3f | Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing. | enemies humor watch | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 2537665 | Yes, ma'am," he said, and folded his hands and stopped where he was, listening, waiting while a very sick woman tried to gather her faculties. "First off, tell the dowager she's a right damn bastard." It was no time for a translator to argue. Mitigation, however, was a reasonable tactic. "Aiji-ma, Sabin-aiji has heard our suspicions regarding Tamun and received assurances from me and Gin-aiji that we have not arranged a coup of our own. She.. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| ee0cdba | We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d0b8b4e | I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 36a499b | Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose que deja ton coeur avait repondu. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 984dd99 | He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think. | gossip small-towns | Victor Hugo | |
| 2652525 | I think of winter, which is nothing but a rift in the firmament through which the winds break loose, the shreds of cloud over the hilltops in the new blue of the morning -- and dew-drops, those false pearls, and frost, that beauty powder, and mankind in disarray and events out of joint, and so many spots on the sun and so many craters in the moon and so much wretchedness everywhere -- when I think of all this I can't help feeling that God i.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| af4b118 | The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d9059bd | Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind. | riot | Victor Hugo | |
| 51f1cd5 | We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e4b83bb | These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a68a113 | lbw's lynZrwn wry'hm l'nhm y`lmwn b'n lnHs ylzmhm w 'n lshq yTrdhm . | Victor Hugo | ||
| e7f9f30 | The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d5059cc | He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow." It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspec.. | education inequality social-issues | Victor Hugo | |
| 8ce7659 | Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1e1e648 | Good night! Good night! Far flies the light; But still God's love Shall shine above, | god light love night | Victor Hugo | |
| d836f70 | Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine | justice truth | Victor Hugo | |
| d2c2a6e | The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state. | love pain soul sublime suffering | Victor Hugo | |
| a5eb5ca | At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette's dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3a95f92 | I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. | humanity misery | Victor Hugo | |
| 0d8e46c | That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0e41dbf | Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure one's affect.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f78ca53 | What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the worship of God in the most delicate of his works and in the most sublime? A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in -what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. | inspirational life | Victor Hugo | |
| 26a9f68 | Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves. | greed | Victor Hugo | |
| db9f25b | Knowledge is a weight added to conscience. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0f634e3 | Aimer ou avoir aimee, cela suffit. Ne demandez rien ensuite. On n'a pas d'autre perle a trouver dans les plis tenebreux de la vie. Aimer est un accomplissement. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6886da9 | The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 15d0cd0 | Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now no pedestrians, surrounded by these dumb, and seemingly dead houses, which throbbed with no human motion, wrapped in the deepening shadows of the twilight, which was beginning to fall, in the midst of this obscurity and silence, through which they felt the advance of something inexpressibly .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| fa8f438 | Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position"." | levin ljewin love marriage pride | Leo Tolstoy | |
| ee2bc0c | It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it. | psychology | Leo Tolstoy | |
| b6a06fb | Anna had the faculty of blushing. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| be2b4ae | the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only the griefs, only sand; but there were also good moments, when she saw only joys, only gold. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a46ccb8 | The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e17e3bb | It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm of the face, the face is a beautiful one; if it does not alter it, the face is ordinary, and if it is spoilt by a smile, it is ugly. | boyhood childhood face smile tolstoy youth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 0b23f91 | Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7246584 | Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4fcf687 | There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract it's interests, and his elemental swarm-life in which he inevitably obeys laws laid down for him | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 62dcdba | Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion--science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally, both in mind and body, as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured, as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world, and therefore as an Englishman always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| eed1242 | As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion I was going uphill, and steadily as I got up it, life was ebbing away from me....And now the work's done, there's only death. | Leo Tolstoy |