Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the dif...
And if you fall as Lucifer fell, you fall in flames! And so it must be, for so it is written on the doorway to Paradise, that those who falter and those who fall must pay the price!
What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat when there is no danger; and in any case, the combatants of the first hour alone have the...
Owing money was the beginning of slavery ..... a creditor was worse than a boss, for a boss only owns your person but a creditor owns your dignity and can slap it around.
. . 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...
چیزی که این مرد را نورانی میکرد، قلب بود. عقلش نیز از نوری ساخته شده بود که از قلبش بیرون میآمد
كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً
البؤساء لاينظرون ورائهم لأنهم يعلمون بأن النحس يلازمهم و أن الشقاء يطاردهم .
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...
Sake of exactness
Occupied
Novels
Many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
Diocese
[THE END OF VOLUME I. FANTINE]
You have to be used to the twists of fate and being caught up in them to dare lift your eyes when certain questions appear in all their horrible starkness. Good or evil are behind the stern question m...
Yok ettikleri insanın bir zekası, hayata güvenen bir aklı, ölüme hazır olmayan bir ruhu olduğunu hiç düşünmemişler midir?
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.