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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b830227 | 'SbHt kmn ymwtwn f~ lthlwj, 'jd ldh@ f~ qtrb lnwm l'khyr | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1a89c84 | Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, Thou.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f98e57b | Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the maw of the clouds. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f9cba8d | Zashchoto liubovta e kato d'rvo, tia raste ot samo sebe si, pushcha d'lboko korenite si v tsialoto ni s'shchestvo i chesto prod'lzhava da zelenee dori kogato s'rtseto e opustosheno. | romance | Victor Hugo | |
| d843ed1 | Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7414918 | Au-dessus de l'absolu revolutionnaire, il y a l'absolu humain. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 05fac4a | Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar, Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil, Dan kalau anda sudah melaksanakan dengan giat tugas anda sehari-hari, | Victor Hugo | ||
| a562923 | Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras used to say that he was in the world in order to admire the sun. And then I have the good fortune to be able to spend my days from morning to night in the company of a man of genius - myself - and it's very pleasant. | inspirational positive pride | Victor Hugo | |
| 47acaa4 | Proper distribution does not imply an equal share but an equitable share. Equity is the essence of equality. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 79c9d06 | They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking of links with the past is a painful thing. | victor hugo | ||
| 24ce8b3 | 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 | ||
| 2a7ce36 | What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant; | Victor Hugo | ||
| f347863 | He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love." | Victor Hugo | ||
| d1a26eb | Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus Christ is the man-God. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0e98415 | We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance. | literature representation truth | Victor Hugo | |
| 2e9cd9e | There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Rapee to the knacker of Montfaucon. Fex urbis, exclaims Cicero; mob, adds Burke, indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do go barefoot! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3f654fe | I stopped asking my father to take me to see Victor Hugo's pen, and he didn't mention it again. That world seemed to have vanished, but for a long time the image I had of my father, which I still preserve today, was that of a thin man wearing an old suit that was too large for him and a secondhand hat he had bought on Calle Condal for seven pesetas, a man who could not afford to buy his son a wretched pen that was useless but seemed to mean.. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 29eeaab | A forza d'uscire per recarsi a sognare, viene il giorno in cui si esce per andarsi ad annegare. | Victor Hugo | ||
| df774d9 | She had witnessed a conflict between two men who held her liberty in their hands, her very life and that of her child; one had sought to drag her deeper into darkness, the other to restore her to light. The two contestants, in the heightened vision of her terror, had seemed like giants, one speaking with the voice of a demon, the other in the tones of an angel. The angel had won, and what caused her to tremble from head to foot was the fact.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e8f7424 | In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continuously. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f78669c | Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f1fd291 | the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 251cfa9 | He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ba100a9 | A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 38656cf | True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do | Victor Hugo | ||
| 108018b | There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second pitch-black. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e9244ee | It is nothing to die. It is dreadful not to live. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6d27b23 | Bishop. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b11d49b | Be like the bird who, Resting in his flight On a twig too slight, Feels it bend beneath him | Victor Hugo | ||
| b43eb3b | The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. The rest is only the rest that comes afterward. Nothing is more real than this great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1e851dd | principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grass.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7f4e9ac | Adorable ambuscades of providence! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7dd4777 | snry rjl lthwb lkhnwt~ y'klwn llHm lbshry, fhw mshhd kkl mshhd akhr | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7ee02fc | mention | Victor Hugo | ||
| 48d8c16 | decimated | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2c2d873 | God raises from the dead he who man slays, he whom his brothers have rejected, finds his father once more. Pray, believe, enter into life the father is there. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a4bfbd3 | The beautiful is just as useful as the useful. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 08903d7 | The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology of the Faculty of Paris, Abbe of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it u.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4b82e9f | For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the lowest depths tenaciously resists the pressures of necessity and ill-doing; there are noble and obscure triumphs observed by no one, unacclaimed by any fanfare. Hardship, loneliness, and penury are a battlefield which has its own heroes, sometimes greater than those lauded in history. Strong and rare characters .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 081984c | Hunchback | Victor Hugo | ||
| e9fd833 | No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 702add3 | People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps. | philosophy reality-check | Victor Hugo | |
| 313a444 | The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a114114 | Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings sprouting on Cosette. | Victor Hugo |