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| 8fd84e8 | One day--when the emperor had come to call on his uncle the cardinal--our worthy priest happened to be waiting as his Majesty went by. Noticing that the old man looked at him with a certain curiosity, Napoleon turned around and said brusquely, 'Who is this good man looking at me?' 'Sire,' replied M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great one. May we both be the better for it." That evening the emperor asked the cardinal th.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a7b5135 | In all Thenardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was.. | good-and-evil poverty suffering | Victor Hugo | |
| acb7c95 | What a transfiguration it is to love! And the little shrieks, the pursuits in the grass, the waists encircled by stealth, the jargon that is melody, the adoration that breaks through in the way a syllable is said, those cherries snatched form one pair of lips by another - It all catches fire and turns into celestial glories. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 62a844e | Protect the workers, encourage the rich. | Victor Hugo | ||
| deefcef | What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At .. | nature prayer reflection sky | Victor Hugo | |
| 5dbf37a | He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which the child was found, or because he wished to show by this name how imperfect and incomplete the poor little creature was. Indeed, Quasimodo, one eyed, hunchbacked, and knock kneed, was hardly more than half made. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 94b772a | At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy! | righteousness self-sacrifice truth | Victor Hugo | |
| ad50485 | But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cda4536 | In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the misery of the child. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8b1458c | We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult wherein everything speaks except our mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 75e0f6d | As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d870e26 | Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future before an unknown being which is itself. It is natural for it to be happy. IT seems as though it breathed hope. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 69bd7d1 | To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify belief, to remove superstiti.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 09973a1 | Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them. | questions | Victor Hugo | |
| 5d52df0 | The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are close.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 25917b4 | Etre aime, c'est en effet, sur cette terre ou rien n'est complet, une des formes les plus etrangement exquises du bonheur. | love | Victor Hugo | |
| c4fb9d4 | n mn l yw'mn bshy' yjd nfsh dy'man fy ftrt mn Hyth `ly dyn lhykl ldhy yq` tHt ydyh | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6188122 | His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship. | Victor Hugo | ||
| deb38e6 | The aim to which I have aspired for so many years, my nightly dream, the object of my prayers in heaven, Security- I have gained it. It is God's will. I must do nothing contrary to the will of God. And why is it God's will? That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example, that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I hav.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0ce2ae0 | Les Miserables is first of all the product of a varied experience of the world, containing the perceptions of an entire life. And this image of reality is also a realistic image. The symbol, as Hugo uses it, does not idealize things; rather, it expresses their spiritual meaning without disguising them. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 814a061 | M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than words-- palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 864ed81 | Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the tears, the anguish, the dismay, the despair, became caresses and radiance...and that their sorrows were so many servants preparing their joy. To have suffered, how good it is! Their grief made a halo around their happiness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e4c5a41 | Darkness makes the brain giddy. Man needs light. Whoever plunges into the opposite of day feels his heart chilled. When the eye sees blackness, the mind sees trouble. In an eclipse, in night, in the sooty darkness, there is an anxiety even to the strongest. Nobody walks alone at night in the forest without trembling. Darkness and trees, two formidable depths - a reality of chimeras appears in the indistinct distance. The Inconceivable outli.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 741c986 | Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 218efbe | Particularly at those moments when we have the sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of thought snap off in the brain. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 339bbe2 | The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no...The monastery is a renunciation. Self-sacrifice, even when misdirected, is still self-sacrifice. To assume as duty a strict error has its peculiar grandeur. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f14e957 | Se dice que en toda manada de lobos hay un perro al que la loba mata, porque si lo deja vivir al crecer devoraria a los demas cachorros. Dad un rostro humano a este perro hijo de loba y tendreis el retrato de aquel hombre. | victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| b0d22af | Los que padeceis porque amais, amad mas aun. Morir de amor es vivir | victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| 8151a03 | Marius made a movement. 'Oh, don't go!' she said. 'It won't be long.' She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by hiccoughs. At moments she struggled for breath. Raising her face as near as she could to Marius', she said, with a strange expression: 'Look, I can't cheat you. I have a letter for you in my pocket. I've had it since yesterday. I was asked to post it, but I didn't. I didn't want you to get it. But yo.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8df8c72 | Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9fa6094 | Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch who guard it." | Victor Hugo | ||
| c5937c0 | This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. | kindness love priest | Victor Hugo | |
| 97ae343 | I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed." *Fantine" | life misery musical | Victor Hugo | |
| f4e14e9 | His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2efa7a0 | After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9b44634 | Twby lh mn `bd r'y `ywb nfsh fqwmh, wr'y `wb lns f'GDy `nh, wr'y lDll wlkfr fst`n bllh `ly mfyh lkhyr wlmnf`@ | البؤساء les-misérables victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| ddf2907 | Il possedait comme tout le monde sa terminaison en "iste", sans laquelle personne n'aurait pu vivre en ce temps-la, mais il n'etait ni royaliste, ni bonapartiste, ni chartiste, ni orleaniste, ni anarchiste; il etait bouquiniste." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7a6383c | He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cbd2b5f | 'w tdryn y ft@ m lshq bm`n~ klm@ lshq? nh 'n ykwn lnsn nsnan wl nsn, w rjl mkfwfan `n mSy'r lrjl, fyHb wl ynl, thm ykhsr dynh fy sbyl ldh@ lwSl, fl ylq~ b`d khsrnh mnh l lSdwd w lnkl, thm yrh b`d dhlk w hy m`bwdth lmqds@, tD` knz Hsnh Tw`y@ tHt qdmy wHsh lyftrsh, bl lylwthh w ydnsh, w hy qryr@ l`yn rDy@ lfw'd | الحب-الشقاء love sadness torture | Victor Hugo | |
| f1ca6ef | La suprema dicha de la vida, es la conviccion de que se es amado; amado por si mismo, digamos mejor, ama!do a pesar de si mismo. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7561d0e | In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the p.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| dd945f6 | He seemed to say to Fate: You wouldn't dare. | Victor Hugo | ||
| df36b98 | Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there leaps out from them a little being. Homuncio, Plautus would say. This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shi.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e9bb7b1 | True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything. | Victor Hugo |