Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
في ما مضى سرقت رغيفا لكي أعيش ,لكنني اليوم أسرق اسما لكي اعيش .
التشكك: التسوّس الذي يصيب الفكر
Superfluous
Mention
In circulation
Extremity.
Exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.
Decimated
And there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful word. They are les misérables– the outcasts, the underdogs.
And after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but that it has moved forward.
Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there.
Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. The little fellow will grow up.
When one has but a single idea he finds in it everything.
What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, ‘I’ve made a blunder.’ And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the re...
What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.