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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 12a74be | We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b4a94e0 | The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man writhed. He felt that he had been stopped short. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c4e215a | Errors make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; | Victor Hugo | ||
| acb44c9 | Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7b8a8f3 | The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn without ceasing to fl.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7a38933 | Fever supports the sick man, and love the lover. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c45040f | Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a2e15d8 | The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7449330 | Ne moze se sprijeciti misao da se vrati samoj sebi, kao sto se ne moze sprijeciti more da se vrati obali. Za mornara, to se zove plima; za krivca, to se zove griznja savjesti. Bog podize dusu kao i ocean. | duša misao more savjest | Victor Hugo | |
| d8850f0 | He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d2b3aa7 | Many of them were familiar from childhood with the fables of La Fontaine. Or they had read Voltaire or Racine or Moliere in English translations. But that was about the sum of any familiarity they had with French literature. And none, of course, could have known in advance that the 1830s and '40s in Paris were to mark the beginning of the great era of Victor Hugo, Balzac, George Sand, and Baudelaire, not to say anything of Delacroix in pain.. | David McCullough | ||
| 0c5ab4d | Pretty, but badly dressed," breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which must afterwards fill the whole life of the woman, coquetry. Love is the other." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0f10c18 | Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault. | les-misérables love | Victor Hugo | |
| 275b589 | I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 33aa735 | He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:-- "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2483714 | Sretan je, cak i kad strepi, svaki onaj kome je Bog dao dusu dostojnu ljubavi i nesrece! Ko na ovoj dvostrukoj svjetlosti nije vidio stvari ovog svijeta i ljudsko srce, taj nije vidio nista istinito i nista ne zna. | ljubav nesreća | Victor Hugo | |
| aafd3a7 | L'ame qui aime et qui souffre est a l'etat sublime. | soul | Victor Hugo | |
| 3633571 | Another said , "I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men we can make our stand." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2152151 | At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section of the Barricade-Merry, and still later killed in the insurrection of April 1834, found him standing not far from his bed, with cartridges in his hands, caught in the act. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c13db9d | You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a slave. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b1e25fc | She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft. | poverty | Victor Hugo | |
| 0592371 | You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7716d23 | He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 29e9f1f | For that matter," said Toussaint, "it's true. We would be assassinated before we'd have time to say Boo! And then, since Monsieur doesn't sleep in the house. But don't be afraid, mademoiselle, I fasten the windows like Bastilles. Women alone ! I'm sure that's enough to make us shudder! Just imagine! To see men come into the room at night and say Hush ! to you and set themselves about cutting your throat. It isn't so much the dying, people d.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7e53e93 | There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 690411d | Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake, why don't you come in?" With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 843e7d2 | But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty child, and the grace proper to her age was still at odds with the repulsive premature aging induced by loose living and poverty. A trace of beauty still lingered in the sixteen-year-old face, like pale sunlight fading beneath the massed clouds of a winter's dawn. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 28cbdb4 | A flower should smell sweet, and a woman should have wit. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6f944ec | Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4cf5935 | Oh, you who are! "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most beautif.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 16506a8 | Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who think and those who suffer; this barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here day embraces night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me. From the heavy em.. | death future happy-martyrs love revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| c17d99f | Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 658c018 | To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4e02fcc | War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses. | Victor Hugo | ||
| db4d599 | If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, to have children; to .. | waterloo | Victor Hugo | |
| 03f190d | The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something is some one,-therein lies the whole woman's future. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e71367b | Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell us that a column of air forty-five miles in height continually presses, is wearied out at night, sinks into lassitude, lies down, and finds repose. The eyes of the flesh are closed; but in that drooping head, less inactive than is supposed, other eyes are opened. The unknown reveals itself. The shadowy exi.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| eb5a611 | Misery offers; society accepts | Victor Hugo | ||
| f313e66 | One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0a6e018 | Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought | Victor Hugo | ||
| 32a9fbb | Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4eca404 | to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it." -- | Victor Hugo | ||
| a470e6c | The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d79d908 | About Hugo: | Victor Hugo |