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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd4d52c | There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate. | juxtaposition revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| a39eaf1 | France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. | sacrifice | Victor Hugo | |
| 2c0cc5f | diocese | Victor Hugo | ||
| b9300ab | Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in order therein to embattle.. | revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| 9967370 | What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat when there is no danger; and in any case, the combatants of the first hour alone have the right to be the exterminators in the last. He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity. He alone who denounces the success has a right to proclaim the justice of the downfall. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 54b8dd6 | They shall exist, and so long as society shall be what it is, they will be what they are. Under the dark vault of their cave, they are forever reproduced in the ooze. What is required to exorcise these goblins? Light. Light in floods. No bat resists the dawn. Illuminate society. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7dd6314 | The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. | sleep | Victor Hugo | |
| 1fe01b6 | Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God. | Victor Hugo | ||
| db0218d | Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid squalor. There is a rose-tinted attic in all our lives. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0a06936 | He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of though snap off in the brain. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0ebe52a | That's life" said the philosopher each time he was almost laid prostrate, "It's often our best friends who make us fall" | Victor Hugo | ||
| 82d329c | That's nice! You have called me Eponine! | Victor Hugo | ||
| af7a59c | To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b68696e | Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and then my own, whom I call unfortunate. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5268820 | There is no hypocrisy so great as the words which we say to ourselves, "I wish to know the worst!" At heart we do not wish it at all. We have a dreadful fear of knowing it. Agony is mingled with a dim effort not to see the end. We do not own it to ourselves, but we would draw back if we dared; and when we have advanced, we reproach ourselves for having done so." -- | Victor Hugo | ||
| bd774ef | Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by you.. | happiness luck misery | Victor Hugo | |
| 93d8556 | Woe, alas, to the one who shall have loved bodies, forms, appearances only. Death will take everything from him. Try to love souls, you shall find them again | Victor Hugo | ||
| df22cfb | Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome" | Victor Hugo | ||
| c582d16 | Djali trotted along behind them, so overjoyed at seeing Gringoire again that she constantly made him stumble by affectionately putting her horns between his legs. 'That's life,' said the philosopher, each time he narrowly escaped falling flat on his face. 'It's often our best friends who cause our downfall. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 89b3667 | Many men have a secret monster this way, a disease that they feed, a dragon that gnaws them, a despair that inhabits their night. Such a man seems like others, quite normal. Nobody knows that he has within him a fearful parasitic pain, with a thousand teeth, which lives in the miserable man, who is dying of it. Nobody knows that this man is a gulf. It is stagnant, but deep. From time to time a turmoil, of which we understand nothing, shows .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d0cc7c8 | Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 -- 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests on his poetic and dramatic output. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Legende des siecles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is s.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f79fbb0 | The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an invulnerable being, seemed, by t.. | enjolras french-revoluntionary | Victor Hugo | |
| 64c843c | The child entered the hut. The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself: - "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1d399d7 | Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. And why not? All.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e49c106 | It is painful to break the sad links to the past | Victor Hugo | ||
| 87558a6 | 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 | ||
| 228a7aa | She talked thus, bent double, shaken with sobs, blinded by tears, her neck bare, clenching her hands, coughing with a dry and short cough, stammering very feebly with an agonised voice. Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. At that moment Fantine had again become beautiful. At certain instants she stopped and tenderly kissed the policeman's coat. She would have softened a heart of granite; but you ca.. | heart-of-granite heart-of-wood | Victor Hugo | |
| 784b3fd | Red, for the blood of angry men, black, for the night that will finally end. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9284ec9 | If mankind is to advance there must be installed permanently at the head of its columns proud instances of courage. Acts of daring light the pages of history and the soul of man. The sunrise is an act of daring. To venture, to defy, to persevere, to be true to one's self, to grapple with destiny, to dismay calamity by not being afraid of it, to challenge now unrighteous powers and now victory run wild, to stand fast and hold firm - these ar.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| df8ec36 | He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, as the night comes when day is gone. | les-mis | Victor Hugo | |
| 2c4341f | There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a381a7a | Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' answered the gipsy; 'it is to be brother and sister, two souls which meet without mingling, two fingers of one hand.' 'And love?' continued Gringoire. 'Oh, love!' said she, and her voice trembled and her eye brightened. 'That is to be two and yet but one. A man and a woman blended into an angel. It is heaven itself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a71ade3 | Of a disposition at once unsociable and talkative, desiring to see no one, yet wishing to converse with some one, he got out of the difficulty by talking to himself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9f75a5f | On the one side blind force, on the other a soul. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 88ba757 | The soul of man is the lamp of God,' says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God's light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlightened by religion), man becomes the most powerful creature in the world. And it cannot be otherwise, for what then works in him is not his own strength, but the strength of God. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8dc2018 | It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4550301 | How horrified he would have been if, seven years ago, when he had just come from abroad, someone had told him that there was no need to seek or invent anything, that his rut had long been carved out for him and determined from all eternity, and that, however he twisted and turned, he would be that which everybody was in his position. He could not have believed it. Had he not wished with all his soul to establish a republic in Russia, then t.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c1a5cee | There is only one real knowledge: that which helps us to be free. Every other type of knowledge is mere amusement. --VISHNU PURANA, | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9725119 | Life and death are in God's hands | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9e502b8 | Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 12db840 | The doctrine of Christ, which teaches love, humility, and self-denial, had always attracted me. But I found a contrary law, both in the history of the past and in the present organization of our lives - a law repugnant to my heart, my conscience, and my reason, but one that flattered my animal instincts. I knew that if I accepted the doctrine of Christ, I should be forsaken, miserable, persecuted, and sorrowing, as Christ tells us His follo.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 45f855a | The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking, no positive indication, yet since neither was there any contraindication, it might, on the one hand, be supposed, but on the other hand it might also be supposed. And it was therefore necessary to stay in bed, and although I don't like prescribing, nevertheless take this and s.. | doctors prescription prevarication | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 5038391 | Reasoning led him into doubt and kept him from seeing what he should and should not do. Yet when he did not think, but lived, he constantly felt in his soul the presence of an infallible judge who decided which of two possible actions was better and which was worse; and whenever he did not act as he should, he felt it at once. So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any possibility of knowing what he was and why he was living in the world, .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2c234da | Nunca seremos amigos, lo sabe usted de sobra. Seremos las personas mas felices o las mas desdichadas. De usted depende. (...) Solo le pido una cosa: que me permita concebir esperanzas y seguir sufriendo como hasta ahora. Y, en caso de que eso no sea posible, ordeneme que desaparezca y desaparecere. No volvera a verme, si mi presencia le resulta tan molesta. | Leo Tolstoy |