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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a89a048 | Sin is a gravitation. | religion sin | Victor Hugo | |
| 6daf019 | The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fast. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d375213 | This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers! | suffering hypocrisy torture evil | Victor Hugo | |
| 38bc285 | Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the onlooker understands .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 173e8c8 | Ne soyons plus anglais ni francais ni allemands. Soyons europeens. Ne soyons plus europeens, soyons hommes. - Soyons l'humanite. Il nous reste a abdiquer un dernier egoisme : la patrie. | fraternité humanité nationalité patrie homme | Victor Hugo | |
| a1b957d | While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the youth, the secret associations, the schools in the name of principles, and the middle class in the name of interests, were moving in to dash against each other, to grapple and overthrow each other, while each was hurrying and calling the final and decisive hour of the crisis, far off and outside that fatal .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 93225d1 | some even affirmed that they had passed the night across the threshold of the great door, in order to make sure that they should be the first to pass in. The crowd | Victor Hugo | ||
| b7fe3aa | THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED V. HUGO | VICTOR HUGO | ||
| 976f843 | The soul does not give up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0354b61 | Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, 'Sinite parvulos,' he made no distinction between the little children. It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own crown. Innocence has no need to be a.. | inspirational | Victor Hugo | |
| acbf339 | No one is more avidly curious about other people's doings than those persons whom they do not concern. | Victor Hugo | ||
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Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papa Mabeuf] continuo dritto verso Enjolras che indietreggiava impietrito, gli strappo la bandiera, e senza che nessuno osasse trattenerlo ne aiutarlo, quel vecchio ottuagenario col capo vacillante, ma col piede fermo, sali lentamente la scala di pietre costruita nella barricata. Lo spettacolo era cosi serio che tutto all'intorno dissero: < |
freedom fraternity revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| 1c6a0c1 | He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3f686d8 | Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ff5841b | Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7b4d79c | Nothing is more real than those great seismic shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging that spark. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e81c35d | One kiss, and that was everything. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5bca36b | Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, Lorsque nous etions si jeunes tous deux, Et que nous n'avions au coeur d'autre envie Que d'etre bien mis et d'etre amoureux, Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre age a mon age, Nous ne comptions pas a deux quarante ans, Et que, dans notre humble et petit menage, Tout, meme l'hiver, nous etait printemps? | poetry revolutionary | Victor Hugo | |
| 6648f7f | All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 359c4a0 | L'amour n'a point de moyen terme; ou il perd, ou il sauve. | love french | Victor Hugo | |
| 5465ae8 | J'etais dans la mort; tu m'as remise dans la vie. Toi la, c'est le ciel a cote de moi. Donne-moi ta main, que je touche Dieu! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 26c9cff | n jmy` jry'm lnsn ltbd' btshrd l'Tfl . | Victor Hugo | ||
| 576a7ab | Who can calculate the trajectory of a molecule? How do we know the creation of worlds is not determined by the falling of grains of sand? Who, after all, knows the reciprocal ebb and flow of the infinitely big and the infinitely small, the reverberation of causes in the chasms of a being, the avalanches of creation? A | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9f4f950 | Ne craignons jamais les voleurs ni les meurtriers. Ce sont la les dangers du dehors, les petits dangers. Craignons-nous nous-memes. Les prejuges, voila les voleurs ; les vices, voila les meurtriers. Les grands dangers sont au dedans de nous. Qu'importe ce qui menace notre tete ou notre bourse ! Ne songeons qu'a ce qui menace notre ame. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 379c3b8 | Be serious," said Enjolras. "I am wild," replied Grantaire." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4f3ffc4 | The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." | Victor Hugo | ||
| e2ea4a3 | Oh ! qu'on m'aille donc, au lieu de cela, chercher quelque jeune vicaire, quelque vieux cure, au hasard, dans la premiere paroisse venue, qu'on le prenne au coin de son feu, lisant son livre et ne s'attendant a rien, et qu'on lui dise : - Il y a un homme qui va mourir, et il faut que ce soit vous qui le consoliez. Il faut que vous soyez la quand on lui liera les mains, la quand on lui coupera les cheveux; que vous montiez dans sa charrette .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| fdb3ce4 | He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 64b02b1 | What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From whom? From misery. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the w.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 916c58a | When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 02b9c61 | Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people. | war republic revolt republicans liberty revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| e0b8cbf | He opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within them. | change counseling vulnerability | Victor Hugo | |
| 09cc9ed | Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. The little fellow will grow up. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cd7f133 | A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:-"The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich,.. | doom mortal dying | Victor Hugo | |
| 9b36d0a | Women play on their beauty as children play with their knives. And they hurt themselves on it, too. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 48b3401 | Nista je umreti - strasno je ne ziveti. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 36d2c0a | He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow." -- | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6d985ca | What is now in the past was once in the future | Victor Hugo | ||
| c0d0faa | What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in whi.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 47cc912 | The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8c0e53a | What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not more than five and twen.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 940f564 | In the morning I write love letters and in the afternoon I dig graves | Victor Hugo | ||
| 610f93e | Mais les signes de ce qui m'attendait reellement, je les ai tous negliges. Je travaille mon diplome sur le surrealisme a la bibliotheque de Rouen, je sors, je traverse le square Verdrel, il fait doux, les cygnes du bassin ont reparu, et d'un seul coup j'ai conscience que je suis en train de vivre peut-etre mes dernieres semaines de fille seule, libre d'aller ou je veux, de ne pas manger ce midi, de travailler dans ma chambre sans etre deran.. | Annie Ernaux | ||
| b1111b6 | Il giorno in cui una donna che vi passa davanti sprigiona luce camminando, siete perduto, amate. Non vi rimane da far altro che una cosa: pensare a lei cosi intensamente da costringerla a pensare a voi. | jean-valjean i-miserabili victor-hugo | Victor Hugo |