Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they...
By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of h...
Bonapartist democrat.Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth and all the stars in heaven.
Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows them to us in order to induce us to reflect.
Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues andour vices, straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of oursouls. God shows them to us in order to induce us to reflect.Only since anim...
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white marble; it gets everywhere, appears under your chisel at any moment without...
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
About Hugo:
A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap.
A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; what it termed our encroachments were our rights. When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing itself victorious...
A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
In the first love, the soul is taken far before the body; afterwards the body is taken far before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all...
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Conscience is God present in man.
Бідність у роки юності знаменна тим, що вона навертає волю до боротьби, а душу - до високих устремлінь.
Your name is My Brother.