Inspiration and genius - one and the same.
He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
A writer is a world trapped in a person.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
إن الحياة التى تخلو من العاطفة ليست غير حركة جافة صارخة ممزقة
Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who think and those who suffer; this barricade is made neither of paving st...
This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
That's nice! You have called me Eponine!
L’homme a sur lui la chair, qui est tout à la fois son fardeau et sa tentation. Il la traîne et lui cède.
Los que padecéis porque amáis, amad más aún. Morir de amor es vivir
I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.
I think, therefore I doubt.
I am come to warn you. I am come to impeach your happiness. It is fashioned out of the misery of your neighbour. You have everything, and that is composed of the nothing of others… As for me, I am but...
He who despairs is wrong.
Everyone 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 are men who, when an incid...
Confiar es a veces abandonar.