Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white.
It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.
He had never known a kind woman friend in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.
Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man.
A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous transparency, for this heaven was within him: this heaven was his conscience.
THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED V. HUGO
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 whi...
Knowing that she was beautiful, she felt convinced, though in an indistinct way, that she had a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.
It's not enough to abolish abuse; custom must also be transformed. The mill was pulled down, but the wind still blows.
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flash...
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That
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 th...
Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect.
That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this su...
The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
No army can stop an idea whose time has come
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