He who does not weep does not see.
He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: What is the use...
He had never known a kind woman friend in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.
He fell to the seat, she by his side. There no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was it that their lips met? How is it that the birds sing, the the snow melts, that the rose opens, th...
For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the lowest depths tenaciously resists the pressures of necessity and ill-...
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects y...
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later, the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
About Hugo:
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.
A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
A chair is not a caste.
Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of ver...
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
مرگ جز به خداوند متعلق نیست. آدمیان به چه حق در این امر مجهول دخالت میکنند؟
انهم يقولون ان الجنون يطيل العمر