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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9c9ab29 | pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8c28ec9 | What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2f4b866 | There is in every village a torch - the teacher: and an extinguisher - the clergyman. -VICTOR HUGO | Richard Dawkins | ||
| db2b05f | In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5a3e016 | Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 562f4eb | Properly speaking, he no longer held opinions; he had sympathies. To which party did he belong? To the party of humanity. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c1b76e4 | Great perils share this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 211fa7e | Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c85ba3e | Do you want a priest?" "I have one." answered Jean Valjean." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0e68fc6 | With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f3dda74 | Hommes et femmes de Londres, me voici. Je vous felicite cordialement d'etre anglais. Vous etes un grand peuple. Je dis plus, vous etes une grande populace. Vos coups de poing sont encore plus beaux que vos coups d'epee. Vous avez de l'appetit. Vous etes la nation qui mange les autres. Fonction magnifique. Cette succion du monde classe a part l'Angleterre. Comme politique et philosophie, et maniement des colonies, populations, et industries,.. | angleterre pseudodoxia-epidemica | Victor Hugo | |
| 60355a4 | The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b499ee6 | The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e92e036 | Victor Hugo once said, "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." -- | Liz Wiseman | ||
| 4afbd50 | She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit .. | romance | Victor Hugo | |
| 689775d | Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ. | Victor Hugo | ||
| bc62c33 | weep for them all," the bishop said. "Equally," G------ exclaimed, "and if the balance tips, let it be on the side of the people: They have suffered longer." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4fa24ac | Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5a7fa78 | Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air. | love table-talk | Victor Hugo | |
| 7f6ef08 | Se per caso capiva che la sua infermita si tradisse per qualche apostrofe incoerente o per qualche domanda inintelligibile, la cosa passava per profondita presso alcuni, per imbecillita presso altri. In ambedue i casi l'onore della magistratura era salvo, perche un giudice puo essere benissimo profondo o imbecille a suo piacere, ma sordo no. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 72feb30 | He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5ab32c1 | As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d64e418 | Tomorrow, at dawn, the moment the countryside is washed with daylight, I will leave. You see, I know that you wait for me. I will go through forest, I will go across the mountains. I cannot rest far from you for long. I will trudge on, my eyes fixed on my thoughts, Without seeing what is outside of myself, without hearing a single sound, Alone, unknown, back bent, hands crossed, Sad, and the day for me will be like the night. I will not loo.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5ff3455 | This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 88b5ba6 | The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 79057f9 | The two friends set out towards "Eve's Apple." It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 405d771 | We must be brief. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 716df7d | if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming degraded are rare; | Victor Hugo | ||
| 887196a | Un incendie peut faire une aurore sans doute, mais pourquoi ne pas attendre le lever du jour ? Un volcan eclaire, mais l'aube eclaire encore mieux. Combeferre preferait peut-etre la blancheur du beau au flamboiement du sublime. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 791c7af | Vi sono cose che non si deve neppure tentare di dipingere: il sole e fra queste. | les-misérables | Victor Hugo | |
| eba5d54 | that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a70668f | Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, where nothing is complete. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 46a5f20 | 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; | Victor Hugo | ||
| f462e26 | Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows them to us in order to induce us to reflect. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 44bf6ed | It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced. | happiness making-others-happy shared-happiness | Victor Hugo | |
| 0534ef6 | Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but that it has moved forward. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e3732ae | Sydanta sarkevaa oli nahda taman pienen lapsiraukan, joka ei ollut viela kuudenkaan vanha, talvipakkasessa vanhojen rikkinaisten ryysyjensa verhoamana, varisten lakaisevan katua jo ennen paivan koittoa, suunnaton luuta pienissa punaisissa katosissaan ja kyynel silmakulmassa. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 99c26a4 | Ystavani, painakaa mieleenne, ettei ole olemassa enempaa huonoja kasveja kuin huonoja ihmisiakaan. On vain huonoja viljelijoita. (Jean Valjean) | Victor Hugo | ||
| e8a345d | Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 16c8f7b | He flew into a rage on every occasion, most frequently when wrong. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0c89f17 | and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful word. They are les miserables- the outcasts, the underdogs. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 90a3948 | ynbGy l yHkm l bslTn l`lm -- wlDmyr - lDmyr hw l`lm ldhy fy dht nfwsn | Victor Hugo | ||
| 62d96a3 | Aucun penseur n'oserait dire que le parfum de l'aubepine est inutile aux constellations. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d515fd2 | La nuit fait des distributions d'essence stellaire aux fleurs endormies. | Victor Hugo |