One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he d...
Notre-Dame de Paris is, in particular, a curious specimen of this variety. Each face, each stone of the venerable monument, is a page not only of the history of the country, but of the history of scie...
Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.
Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.
Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,—there are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; ther...
Marius made a movement.'Oh, don't go!' she said. 'It won't be long.'She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by hiccoughs. At moments she struggled for breath. Raising her...
M. Myriel devait subir le sort de tout nouveau venu dans une petite ville où il y a beaucoup de bouches qui parlent et fort peu de têtes qui pensent.
Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.
La dicha que habría podido encontrar en la tierra si ella no hubiera sido gitana ni él sacerdote; si Febo no hubiera existido y si ella lo hubiera amado.
It's that big guy who's the government.
It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His destiny was entering upon the unknown.
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing...
Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien étrange,Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n’eut plus son ange.La choise simplement d’elle-même arriva.Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s’en va.He is asleep....
If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow.
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
If anyone had said to him, Would you like to be better off? he would have replied: No. If God had said to him: Would you like heaven itself in exchange? he would have replied, I would be the loser.
I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors. The