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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f85fb95 | Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3b77a60 | Peace is happiness digesting | Victor Hugo | ||
| 03eef08 | We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7a8a9f4 | There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. | driving-forces gold greed | Victor Hugo | |
| cfa9208 | The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a67e22f | Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect on. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c16d833 | He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1cefe0a | The future has many names. For the weak, it's unattainable. For the fearful, it's unknown. For the bold, it's ideal. --VICTOR HUGO | Anthony Robbins | ||
| 45b5f19 | He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal. | depression inner-conflict javert les-misérables | Victor Hugo | |
| e3ca5fa | So how do magistrates understand the word civilization? Where do we stand with it? Justice reduced to subterfuge and trickery! The law to machinations! Appalling! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6bc182f | Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 11d3310 | Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d7523da | Do we ever realize our fondest dreams? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2d7062a | With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with his foot onto one of those poor man's pillows which Providence provides on all the street corners of Paris and which the rich disdainfully refer to as heaps of garbage. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e8a8b3d | It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities." - Victor Hugo" | David McCullough | ||
| 23baaee | Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth. | feeling grief love soul suffering | Victor Hugo | |
| 15e1233 | What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation." | Victor Hugo | ||
| f55061c | Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 410a0b8 | Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3c068b4 | To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5977bc3 | I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people | les-misérables revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| 391f64b | You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4324727 | Most incarcerated women--nearly two-thirds--are in prison for nonviolent, low-level drug crimes or property crimes. Drug laws in particular have had a huge impact on the number of women sent to prison. "Three strikes" laws have also played a considerable role. I started challenging conditions of confinement at Tutwiler in the mid-1980s as a young attorney with the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee. At the time, I was shocked to find wome.. | Bryan Stevenson | ||
| 0d6fcef | Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2bf6408 | It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ef685a8 | But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano. We vomit forth black smoke. | Velimir Khlebnikov | ||
| 4578d34 | Book is a nice companion | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 75b75aa | Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and rea.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f841762 | For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ef0e65a | Speransky, either because he appreciated Prince Andrey's abilities or because he thought it as well to secure his adherence, showed off his calm, impartial sagacity before Prince Andrey, and flattered him with that delicate flattery that goes hand in hand with conceit, and consists in a tacit assumption that one's companion and oneself are the only people capable of understanding all the folly of the rest of the world and the sagacity and p.. | flattery | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 75fb03b | How can you possibly hope to reform her after the life she's been leading?' 'It's not her I'm wanting to reform - it's me,' he replied. 'Besides, it's taking me into a world where I can do some good.' 'I can't imagine you happy.' 'That's not the point.' 'Of course it isn't. But if she has a heart, she can't be happy either. She can't want you to do that.' 'No, she doesn't.' 'I see. But life...' 'What about life?' 'Life demands something dif.. | love philosophy resurrection | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a4d9ab1 | You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8727b5c | But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something --not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4f9260e | If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7e1b689 | Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had for both of them, and because both had lived and both had died. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 02f0aa5 | S., a clever and truthful man, once told me the story of how he ceased to believe. On a hunting expedition, when he was already twenty-six, he once, at the place where they put up for the night, knelt down in the evening to pray -- a habit retained from childhood. His elder brother, who was at the hunt with him, was lying on some hay and watching him. When S. had finished and was settling down for the night, his brother said to him: 'So you.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 59e4d32 | He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to her and was looking the other way. It even seemed to him that she, a worn-out, aged, no longer beautiful woman, not remarkable for anything, simple, merely a kind mother of a family, ought in all fairness to be indulgent. It turned out to be quite the opposite. | marriage | Leo Tolstoy | |
| e064d4d | the superfluity of the comforts of like destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation...is just what makes the choice of occupation insoluble difficult and destroys the need and even the possibility of having an occupation. p 1209 | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bf0aad8 | He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 74d50fb | Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8b7c93a | Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he has learnt to be fulfilled. But learning just as certainly that his will is subject to laws, he does not and cannot believe it. However often experiment and reasoning may show a man that under the same conditions and with the same character he will do the same thing as before, yet when, under the same condi.. | reason | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 20d98f8 | The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?" | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 288beb5 | Moreover, during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at the moment he prayed, he believed. But that moment had passed, and he could not make his state of mind at that moment fit into the rest of his life. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ee1d904 | the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment. | Leo Tolstoy |