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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fa876bd | for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5951299 | He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter is Parisian. In | Victor Hugo | ||
| a5463de | 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. Only | Victor Hugo | ||
| 586c1c6 | Tal es la explicacion de la guerra, que es algo que lleva a cabo la humanidad contra la humanidad pese a la humanidad. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a3a9f82 | In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f354a79 | He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e8f5e3c | Her heart turned dark at the place that had been his. | Victor Hugo Hugo | ||
| 3eebbe9 | one speaks to one's self, talks to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because they are not visible and palpable. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 398c5ed | She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c49e91a | She took recourse to the expedient of constantly terrified children. She lied. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 618a5b9 | Penetrate, at certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within him, and wh.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e12bdde | On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9dddee3 | The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6d3f912 | Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 241f67f | Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace. | Victor Hugo | ||
| fbfe3d2 | Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9b25964 | God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f89c6dc | Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2e84a94 | The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2fba94b | Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 072d671 | Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 73fe794 | the winter always bears away with it a portion of our sadness; | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3d1ab17 | In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7e6d725 | Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be a contradiction between the look in her eyes, which tended to melancholy, and the brightness of her smile. This had a somewhat disconcerting effect, so that at moments her charming face was puzzling without ceasing to be delightful"." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 73564d3 | One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f279675 | Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be a contradiction between the look in her eyes, which tended to melancholy, and the brightness of her smile. This had a somewhat disconcerting effect, so that at moments her charming face was puzzling without ceasing to be delightful. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b1a393a | It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6e8966a | While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human hell within civilization, and complicates with human fatality and destiny that is divin; while the three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness, continue unresolved; while in some regions so.. | victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| 3afe6b5 | Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time, man's self-consciousness removed him from nature into a life of toil, doubt, fear, guilt, shame, blame, enmity, loneliness, and frailty--and the product of this separation, the fruit and flower of this exile, is, of course, culture. 'God,' said.. | consciousness creation-myths culture greek-mythology religion wine | Neel Burton | |
| 6414d59 | Whatever may be happening today, peace is the meaning of tomorrow | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4e8ffc5 | Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f6840db | Everything can be parodied, even parody. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 98484b8 | Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8b275f5 | Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 779239c | The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of all distresses, the coldest. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 28f1717 | Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical with the persistence of the I. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5a4691f | Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9372f4e | The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all. | hero hugo madeleine wagon | Victor Hugo | |
| 61b548c | 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 beautiful of all your nam.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 30bf1b8 | 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, and comes afterward. Nothing is more real than those great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark. | Victor Hugo | ||
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| 1d80eb6 | What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall! | Victor Hugo | ||
| b09c383 | All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; and | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4131e92 | Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, "Do come in!" There" | Victor Hugo |