What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the w...
When one has but a single idea he finds in it everything.
When they saw him making money, they said, He is a man of business. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, He is an ambitious man. When he was seen to decline honors, they said, He i...
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.
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.
Exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.
Extremity.
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It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just.
Victor hugo, Les Contemplations, MorsJe vis cette faucheuse. Elle était dans son champ. Elle allait à grands pas moissonnant et fauchant, Noir squelette laissant passer le crépuscule. Dans l'ombre où...
¿Qué había esta vez en la mirada de la joven? Marius no hubiera podido decirlo. No había nada y lo había todo. Fue un relámpago extraño.[...]Es una especie de ternura indecisa que se revela al azar y...
Защото любовта е като дърво, тя расте от само себе си, пуща дълбоко корените си в цялото ни същество и често продължава да зеленее дори когато сърцето е опустошено.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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...
Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place.
A book is so soon made, costs so little, and may go so far! Why should we surprised that all human thought flows that way?
A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapo...
A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
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