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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f35b697 | L'ignorance vaut encore mieux que la mauvaise science. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f70812e | No temamos nunca a los ladrones ni a los asesinos. Temamonos a nosotros mismos, porque los grandes peligros se encuentran dentro de nosotros | Victor Hugo | ||
| b759578 | My znaem, chto sushchestvuet filosofiia, otritsaiushchaia beskonechnost'. Sushchestvuet takzhe filosofiia, otritsaiushchaia solntse; etu filosofiiu, otnosiashchuiusia k oblasti patologii, imenuiut slepotoi. Vozvodit' nedostaiushchee nam chuvstvo v istochnik istiny - na eto sposobna lish' derzkaia samouverennost' sleptsa. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cea800c | Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 90f8ca1 | Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. What have we to .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 07840ae | Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of what? What expiation? A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human generosities, the expiation for others." Here all personal theory is withheld; we ar.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0f0396c | Let us never fear robbers or murders. Those are dangerous from without, Teddy dangerous. Let us be ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul. | prospective sin-nature | Victor Hugo | |
| 2f8e6b3 | Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 17aeef0 | Alas! that was the greatest of sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the final step to be taken, but he must do it. Mournful destiny! he could only enter into the sanctity in the eyes of God, by returning into infamy in the eyes of men! | Victor Hugo | ||
| f009927 | As long as there are miserables there will be a cloud on the horizon that can become a phantom and a phantom that can become Marat. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8d4babe | All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singularity was lacking in this crisis, still subterranean, but already perceptible. The middle class talked quietly with workingmen about the preparations. They would say, "How is the uprising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said, " How's your wife?" | Victor Hugo | ||
| 640c411 | In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 859d932 | So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia i.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1199f73 | You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. --VICTOR HUGO | Eric Greitens | ||
| 6fb28f8 | Teach the ignorant as much as you possibly can: society is culpable for not giving instruction gratis, and is responsible for the night it produces. This soul s full of darkness, and sin is committed, but the guilt person is not the man who commits the sin, but he who produces the darkness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7eb92c7 | We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9a9767f | The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1e8797d | Take care of the way in which you turn to the dead. Do not think of that which perishes. Look fixedly, and you will perceive the living light of your beloved dead in heaven. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a393b53 | Oh, to lie side by side in the same tomb, hand in hand, and to gently touch a finger-tip from time to time in the darkness, would suffice for my eternity. You who suffer because you love, love more than ever. To die for love is to live by it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 63b2d6e | In the neighborhood she was called the Lark. People like figurative names and were happy to give a nickname to this child, no larger than a bird, trembling, frightened, and shivering, first to wake every morning in the house and the village, always in the street or in the fields before dawn. Except that the poor lark never sang. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7a12310 | And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" | Victor Hugo | ||
| c295edf | He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because he was free. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 284de5d | To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation. | Victor Hugo | ||
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Nessun limite a Parigi. Nessuna citta ha avuto questa dominazione che dileggiava talvolta coloro ch'essa soggioga: Piacervi o ateniesi! esclamava Alessandro. Parigi fa piu che la legge, fa la moda; e piu che la moda, l'abitudine. Se le piace, puo esser stupida, e talvolta si concede questo lusso, allora l'universo e stupido con lei. Poi Parigi si sveglia, si frega gli occhi e dice: < |
Victor Hugo | ||
| 27e351f | many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c204ea4 | If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f79b606 | He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 803e9bf | Blind is he who will not see! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 87b0207 | To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to ourselves; the angels vote. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2b8bcb5 | Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them ... One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d9ea73b | Is there anybody here?" asked he, aloud and in a startled voice. Then he continued with a laugh, which was like the laugh of an idiot: "What a fool I am! there cannot be anybody here." There was One; but He who was there was not of such as the human eye can see. He put the candlesticks on the mantel. Alas! all his irresolutions were again upon him. He was no further advanced than when he began. So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f6f12d7 | The Genesis Of Butterflies The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings, That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide, With muffled music, murmured far and wide. Ah, the Spring time, when we think of all the lays That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays, Of the fond hearts within a billet bound, Of all the soft silk .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0d15a2e | Hence, that crown is the money of hell. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0bf0d09 | Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b6bdb95 | Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise. | grace innocence les-misérables | Victor Hugo | |
| f2b101b | 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 which to dream. At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 547d8d4 | In all his trials he was sustained and at times even exalted by a secret strength in himself. The soul aids the body and at moments uplifts it. It is the only bird that can endure a cage. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f2b9575 | Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every human soul, was there not in the s.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 558fa6e | 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 | ||
| 8f75bc5 | The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he | Victor Hugo | ||
| c9949d1 | Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the evil-minded is black." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 47b869c | Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and shall set out in an hour." "Set out?" "Set out." "Alone?" "Alone." "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. They a.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 328fb6e | Once she looked up from her work and was floored by the anxious way her father was looking at her. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9711dc8 | The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite. Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which n.. | Victor Hugo |