. . winter always carries with it something of our sadness; then April came, that daybreak of summer, fresh like every dawn, gay like every childhood; weeping a little sometimes like the infant that i...
لقد هدمتم . ان الهدم قد يكون مفيدا، ولكني لا أثق بهدم يمازجه الغضب-- إن للعدالة غضبها، يا سيدي الاسقف. وغضب العدالة عامل من عوامل التقدم. وعلى الرغم من جميع المزاعم فان الثورة الفرنسية هي اعظم خطوة خط...
نیروی فکر در او چندان بزرگ است که نمی‌تواند از ملایمت تجاوز کند
في ما مضى سرقت رغيفا لكي أعيش ,لكنني اليوم أسرق اسما لكي اعيش .
البؤساء لاينظرون ورائهم لأنهم يعلمون بأن النحس يلازمهم و أن الشقاء يطاردهم .
Бідність у роки юності знаменна тим, що вона навертає волю до боротьби, а душу - до високих устремлінь.
What is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study an...
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...
One speaks to one's self, talks to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the mouth. The realities of the s...
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.
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
You have knocked at every door? she asked.Yes.Have you knocked at that one there?No.Knock there.
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 those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.
What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defencelessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: a human...
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 a pity! said Combeferre. What hideous things these butcheries are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not lookin...
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.