Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy.
Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is calle...
Be serious, said Enjolras. I am wild, replied Grantaire.
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Asociad estas dos ideas, París y la infancia, que contienen la una todo el fuego, la otra toda la aurora; haced que choquen estas dos chispas, y el resultado es un pequeño ser.
Aquí el hombre se convierte en dragón. Tener hambre, tener sed es el punto de partida, ser Satanás es el punto de llegada.
A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.
A cloud has been collecting for 1500 years, yet you are condemning the thunderclap. Its wrath will be absolved by the future. Its result is a better world; and a caress for the human race issues from...
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.Nothing is more sublime.
It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in one's li...
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
وسواء أكان مايقال عن الرجال صدقا أم كذبا فإنه كثيرا مايترك في حيواتهم وفي مصائرهم بخاصة،أثرا أعظم من ذلك الذي تتركه أفعالهم
و تناول يدها و ضغطها علي قلبه دون ان يعلم ما هو فاعل.و تناولت يده بدورها ووضعتها علي قلبها فهتف: اتحبيني اذا؟فأجابت بصوت خافت لا يكاد يرتفع علي انفاسها: صه انت تعلم انني احبك .. و اخفت وجهها في صدره و...
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