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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ecf4c2b | My friends, remember this: There are no bad herbs, and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d06640c | He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day | Victor Hugo | ||
| 394a314 | The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul. | death les-misérables | Victor Hugo | |
| af12616 | The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. In was in that quarter, quia multum amavit,--because he loved much--that he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene ben.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 51e35d7 | When one has but a single idea he finds in it everything. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 95d1784 | perfidious. | Victor Hugo | ||
| fdad564 | All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. Suffocation of the soul. | love stiffle suffocation | Victor Hugo | |
| 5261816 | In the meantime, let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. This specter, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 49d7600 | If no one loved, the sun would go out. | les-misérables love sun | Victor Hugo | |
| 4cfcc2c | Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men. | victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| 4624b8b | In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. | gossip slander | Victor Hugo | |
| 59a0d8f | To speak out aloud when alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity which is within. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9832eb4 | Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. 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. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the gra.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3bbb500 | To love your neighbors is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | ||
| 62b5b26 | Nothing is so logical and nothing appears so absurd as the ocean. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9ff4fc5 | I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! | feasting female summer toast | Victor Hugo | |
| 41553bf | If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1f822b0 | To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most infamous of men, would be to swallow up all epics in a superior and final epic. The conscience is the chaos of chimeras, of lusts and of temptations, the furnace of dreams, the cave of the ideas which are our shame; it is the pandemonium of sophisms, the battlefield of the passions. At certain hours, penetrate within the livid face of a human b.. | conscience depth desire reflection soul | Victor Hugo | |
| 57bb6b0 | The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.That is why we cry: education, knowledge! to learn to read is to kindle a fire; every syllable spelled sparkles. But whoever say light does not necessarily say joy. There is suffering in light; an excess burns. Flames is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d9339e9 | Cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountains, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side. | noble-savage popularity reputation | Victor Hugo | |
| f8160d0 | Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7db186e | Or, donner la grosse cloche en mariage a Quasimodo, c'etait donner Juliette a Romeo. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8c876b8 | To err his human, to stroll is Parisian. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1426284 | The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c3d969c | That's my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene, | mischievous rouge sly vronsky | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 5adf506 | In reality it was just what is usually seen in the houses of people of moderate means who want to appear rich, and therefore succeed only in resembling others like themselves: there are damasks, dark wood, plants, rugs, and dull and polished bronzes -- all the things people of a certain class have in order to resemble other people of that class. His house was so like the others that it would never have been noticed, but to him it .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f44909e | One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8eaa656 | A better life can only come when the consciousness of men is altered for the better; and therefore, those who wish to improve life must direct all their efforts towards changing both their own and other people's consciousness. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 56ef583 | There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way. | human-naturei inspirational | Leo Tolstoy | |
| c249a89 | In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, and be dead a long time before anybody will notice it. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f42d21b | Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards--for several years after--that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f423673 | Justice, humanity, or political wisdom, are qualities they are too little acquainted with in themselves, to appreciate them in others. Valor will acquire their esteem, and liberality will purchase their suffrage; but the first of these merits is often lodged in the most savage breasts; the latter can only exert itself at the expense of the public; and both may be turned against the possessor of the throne, by the ambition of a daring rival. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 4d9229f | Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life. | memory | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3edca47 | The position occupied by Toporoff, involving as it did an incongruity of purpose, could only be held by a dull man devoid of moral sensibility. Toporoff possessed both these negative qualities. The incongruity of the position he occupied was this: It was his duty to keep up and to defend, by external measures, not excluding violence, that Church which, by its own declaration, was established by God Himself and could not be shaken by the gat.. | incongruity religion state-religion | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 641999c | Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the benefit of the Slavs: balls, concerts, dinners, speeches, ladies' dresses, beer, restaurants--all bore witness to our sympathy with the Slavs. With much that was spoken and written on the subject Konyshev did not agree in detail. He saw that the Slav quest.. | manners novel realist-fiction society-novel | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 15dd39e | If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 134bc92 | O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet, and to the right and left of you; you will be an eternal enigma unto yourselves until ye become humble and joyful as children. Then will ye find Me, and having found Me in yourselves, you will rule over worlds, and looking out from the great world within to the little world without, you will bless everything that is, and find all is well with time and with you. KRISHNA. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 00bae13 | He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in the world in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f3cc1e7 | Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate. | love relationships | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 2e15e24 | The younger sister was piqued, and in turn disparaged the life of a tradesman, and stood up for that of a peasant. "I would not change my way of life for yours," said she. "We may live roughly, but at least we are free from anxiety. You live in better style than we do, but though you often earn more than you need, you are very likely to lose all you have. You know the proverb, 'Loss and gain are brothers twain.' It often happens that people.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d4bf508 | Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels? | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 09ed7d0 | When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward...Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of env.. | life meaningful-life simple simplicity work | Leo Tolstoy | |
| e9700a6 | Well, what is that to me? I can't see her!" she cried." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 3fad8dc | There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable. | self-control | Leo Tolstoy |