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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 765238a | Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man. | revolutions | Victor Hugo | |
| b6ff6bb | A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But | Victor Hugo | ||
| 05e48d1 | 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 is possible in any part of the world;--in other .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 410678f | and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that the rhododendron was happy now. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9fbb01b | LES MISERABLES VOLUME | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5ac47b4 | You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh ! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault ; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1e56305 | What was the battle? What were the aims of the romantics? Why was the subject the focus of such violent interest? Hugo and his generation were all 'enfants du siecle', all, give or take a year or two, born with the century. Brought up amidst the dramas of Napoleon's wars, they had reached manhood to the anticlimax of peace and Bourbon rule. Restless and dissatisfied, their dreams of military glory frustrated, they had turned them- sel.. | Linda Kelly | ||
| 824e0d7 | A cloud has been collecting for 1500 years, yet you are condemning the thunderclap. Its wrath will be absolved by the future. Its result is a better world; and a caress for the human race issues from its most terrible blows. The human race has been chastised, but it has moved onward. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6c2165a | Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8e97494 | La Tour-Gauvain avait une destinee etrange : un Gauvain l'attaquait, un Gauvain la defendait. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 48e7e14 | Las mujeres juegan con su belleza como los ninos con un cuchillo, y se hieren. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2f14d6a | One may feel a certain indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some | Victor Hugo | ||
| 742d988 | We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cd8f0b7 | Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover stars. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8d153d8 | Daca nu s-ar aprinde nimic indaratul pleoapei, inseamna ca nici un gand nu incolteste in minte, inseamna ca nici un sentiment de dragoste nu clocoteste in inima. Acela care iubeste, acela are si vointa, iar vointa inflacareaza privirea omului. Hotararea toarna foc in privire; foc minunat, iscat de arderea gandurilor timide. | Victor Hugo | ||
| add3a86 | 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." It" | Victor Hugo | ||
| 18673c5 | the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season sufficed to make a world crumble. The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven o'clock, and that gave Blucher time to come up. Why? Because the ground was wet. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e4e839f | Let misery hide itself in silence, otherwise it becomes treason. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d4b5ff0 | I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, despair; I have darkness in my soul. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0364a0d | To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further, There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7e8ba3c | Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled | vanity | Victor Hugo | |
| 86c69c3 | Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. The patrician and th.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e86e050 | God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6cb6f40 | If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e30fd90 | The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion under the Caesars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar of Rome, they were the vaults of the wor.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| dd22e26 | The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b22920c | Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 98c0ddc | The only social peril is darkness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2f6e476 | October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Room | Victor Hugo | ||
| dccacc6 | in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9ba2cb7 | Nihilism has no point. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0a16a41 | In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. 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. In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the p.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b1f81d7 | Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the earth. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ea2a127 | It was time that this vast man should fall. The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man, -- this would be mortal to civilization were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably th.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 683b35d | A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; what it termed our encroachments were our rights. When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up before the face of France, and, elevating its vo.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 49a32dc | Let us fight. Let us fight, but let us discriminate. The characteristic of truth is never to be extreme. What need has it to exaggerate? There is that which needs to be destroyed, and there is that which simply needs to be elucidated and examined. Well intentioned and serious examination, that is a force to be reckoned with! Let us not put to the torch where it is enough to bring light. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ff01b70 | Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c078a03 | With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 52361f3 | Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight leagues distant from Brussels, -- there are relics of the Middle Ages there which are attainable for everybody, -- at the Abbey of Villers, the hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly the courtyard of the cloister, and, on the banks of the Thil, four stone dungeons, half under gro.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f34225b | the galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9140679 | They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and it was turned into a sepulchre... | Victor Hugo | ||
| 41baf5b | He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. In | Victor Hugo | ||
| edf9e48 | A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 02bfbca | Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the household should then.. | Victor Hugo |