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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc5202d | A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 328b293 | The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul. To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to a single man, were.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c803a73 | You have no effect on me with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing bric-a-brac from Artaxerxes. I dispense you from quieting me. Anyway, I'm sad. What would you have me tell you? Man is wicked, man is deformed; the butterfly has succeeded, man has missed. God failed on this animal. A crowd gives you nothing but a choice of ugliness. The first man you meet will be a wretch. 'Femme' rhymes with 'infame', woman is infamous. Yes, I have the spl.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8eebafb | 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. | learning knowledge | Victor Hugo | |
| 11b42ac | From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of con.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b43c336 | Be fair, my friends! To be the empire of such an emperor, what a splendid destiny for a nation, when that nation is France, and when it adds its genius to the genius of such a man ! To appear and to reign, to march and to triumph, to have every capital for a staging area, to take his grenadiers and make kings of them, to decree the downfall of dynasties, to transfigure Europe at a double quickstep, so men feel, when you threaten, that you a.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 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. | love les-misérables 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. | slander gossip | 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 toast summer | 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.. | depth reflection conscience desire 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 reputation popularity | 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 | ||
| 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. | inspirational human-naturei | 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 8ef908a | It is better to know several basic rules of life than to study many unnecessary sciences. The major rules of life will stop you from evil and show you the good path in life; but the knowledge of many unnecessary sciences may lead you into the temptation of pride, and stop you from understanding the basic rules of life. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9cdd2f0 | Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist-- and I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave', as you call yourself! But how are you? I see I have frightened you--sit down a.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 064b0b0 | Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, | tolstoy leo | Leo Tolstoy | |
| bc62386 | Leo Tolstoy wrote: "One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."19" | Jonathan Haidt | ||
| 3f08fa8 | wHd lnby mHmd qby'l l`rb w'nr 'fkrhm w'bSrhm bm`rf@ llh lwHd hdhb 'khlfhm wlyn Tb`hm wqlwbhm w'SlH `dthm lbrbry@ lhmjy@ wj`lhm 'm@ mst`d@ llrqy wltqdm. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ece5683 | flns yshbhwn l'nhr yjry lm fyh jmy`an , Gyr 'n 'Hdh ykwn mstqyman fy mkn m wmt`rjan fy akhr , ws`an wDyqan . Sfy lm w`krh , ftran wbrdan whkdh sh'n lbshr , fhm yHmlwn fy dkhlhm bdhwr lfDy'l wlrdhy'l , fTwran ttGlb hdhh w Twran ttGlb tlk | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 34e73d2 | Ali ljudi - veliki, odrasli ljudi - nisu prestajali da varaju i muce sami sebe i jedan drugoga. Ljudi su drzali da nije sveto i vazno to proljetno jutro, ni ta krasota svijeta bozjega stvorena za dobro svim bicima - krasota koja pozivlje za mir, slogu i ljubav - nego je sveto i vazno ono sto su izmislili oni sami da bi vladali jedan nad drugim | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bb58627 | All books are hyggelig, but classics written by authors such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy, and Charles Dickens have a special place on the bookshelf. At the right age, your kids may also love to cuddle up with you in the hyggekrog and have you read to them. Probably not Tolstoy. | Meik Wiking | ||
| f43ac01 | lm tkn bHj@ lttsl : lma kn hn . knt t`lm Hq l`lm , km lw 'nh hw ldhy 'nb'h bdhlk, 'nh kn hn lykwn Hyth tkwn . | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 75a5f4c | n lmr@ qd tkhd` 'shd lns dh wdhk , lkn 'shd lTfl Gb yktshfh wyu`rD `nh, mhm 'khfyt bbr`@ | Leo Tolstoy |