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| 5221ef4 | Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties and words, the disputants finally arrived at being aware that what they had so long been struggling to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they liked different things, and would not define what they liked for fear of its being.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b4a8680 | He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength. | death despair dying | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3ec2701 | from ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there should be men. | truth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| e7e8a2b | It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And as I've told you before, I tell you again; it's not right for you not to go to the meetings, and altogether to keep out of the district business. If decent people won't go into it, of course it's bound to go all wrong. We pay the money, and it all goes in salaries, and there are no schools, not district nurse.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 12d1d7e | from | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c73bbae | I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 99c8cfe | All that exists is One. People only call this One by different names. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 040d292 | She felt as though everything were beginning to be double in her soul, just as objects sometimes appear double to over-tired eyes. She hardly knew at times what it was she feared, and what she hoped for. Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen, and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b98df15 | If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cd9561c | And the slaves prided themselves on their master, saying: 'There is no better lord than ours under the sun. He feeds and clothes us well, and gives us work suited to our strength. He bears no malice, and never speaks a harsh word to any one. He is not like other masters, who treat their slaves worse than cattle: punishing them whether they deserve it or not, and never giving them a friendly word. He wishes us well, does good, and speaks kin.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9b306ee | He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought... | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 32da34c | Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expression came into her face. She was thinking of no one and of nothing at that moment, and from her smiling mouth poured forth notes, those notes that anyone can produce at the same intervals, and hold for the same length of time, yet a thousand tim.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 1b48b47 | As he looked round, she too turned her head .Her shining gray eyes, that looked dark from the thick lashes, rested with friendly attention on his face, as though she were recognizing him, and then promptly turned away to the passing crowd, as though seeking someone. In that brief look Vronsky had time to notice the suppressed eagerness which played over her face, and flitted between the brilliant eyes and faint smile that curved her red lip.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 1864968 | He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars. | Victor Hugo | ||
| df45727 | Large sums passed through his hands. Nevertheless, nothing changed his way of life or added the slightest luxury to his simple life. Quite the contrary, As there is always more misery at the lower end than humanity at the top, everything was given away before it was received, like water on parched soil. No matter how much money came to him, he never had enough. And then he robbed himself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4c4670a | Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1066a6e | It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which combines all the material elements, and into which no moral element enters. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 60d0917 | It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is itself which creates them. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f4989cf | Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 52955e1 | n ll'Hdth lkbyr@ dhywlan lyst fy lHsbn | Victor Hugo | ||
| d645bf4 | Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4e35587 | Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there converted into evil. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 04352a0 | The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 97772e8 | Viaggiare e nascere e morire in ogni momento. Forse, nella piu vaga regione della sua mente, faceva accostamenti tra quei mutevoli orizzonti e l'esistenza umana. Tutte le cose della vita sono continuamente in fuga davanti a noi. Gli ottenebramenti e le luci si frammischiano: dopo un abbagliamento, un'eclisse; si guarda, ci si affretta, si tendono le mani per afferrare cio che passa; ogni evento e una svolta della strada; e d'un tratto si e .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4d55ed9 | Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 561dbb6 | Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- "The French Revolution!" | Victor Hugo | ||
| bf728cb | Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e13e70a | All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I consider that I am to be envied. | Hugo Victor | ||
| 03e9c10 | There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his mine. Pain everywhere was an occasion for goodness always. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ac08e4e | It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f34925f | Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 42ba4f5 | No corruption is possible with the diamond. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d67352e | With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators." | compassion men plants weeds wisdom | Victor Hugo | |
| 1bccdbb | Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny! | Victor Hugo | ||
| e356281 | The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our knowing why, that because we have received an almost imperceptible blow from a chance word, the heart insensibly empties itself of love. He who loves, perceives a decline in his happiness. There is nothing more to be dreaded than this slow exudation from the fissure in the vase. | love | Victor Hugo | |
| 0c74098 | Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9fb72d5 | I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou! | money poverty | Victor Hugo | |
| 51b8c28 | He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d15a7af | It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 418da8f | The world is like Olympus - even a thief is accepted in it if he is also a god. | Victor Hugo | ||
| dcd9e28 | There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2e45581 | It has been calculated that what with salvos, royal and military politeness, courteous exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots. At six francs a sh.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 96a54d0 | This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart. | duty regret | Victor Hugo | |
| 965e05e | Zhivot't e neprek'snato gubene na onova, koeto obichame. | Виктор-Юго | Victor Hugo |