At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.
At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section of the Barricade-Merry, and still later killed in the insurrection of April...
As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.
As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, self-sacrifice, confidenc...
As long as there are misérables there will be a cloud on the horizon that can become a phantom and a phantom that can become Marat.
Another said , I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men we can make our stand.
And if you wish to receive of the ancient city an impression with which the modern one can no longer furnish you, climb--on the morning of some grand festival, beneath the rising sun of Easter or of P...
Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points
All this is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck i...
Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.
After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skele...
A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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 and meditate upon: some flowers on earth a...
A hundred francs, thought Fantine. But in what trade can one earn a hundred sous a day? Come! said she, let us sell what is left. The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town.
A forza d'uscire per recarsi a sognare, viene il giorno in cui si esce per andarsi ad annegare.
A doll is among the most pressing needs as well as the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for it, adorn it, dress and undress it, give it lessons, scold it a little, put it to bed...
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!
Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
ينبغي الا يحكم الا بسلطان العلم-- والضمير- الضمير هو العلم الذي في ذات نفوسنا
— Je veux dire que l’homme a un tyran, l’ignorance. J’ai voté la fin de ce tyran-là. Ce tyran-là a engendré la royauté, qui est l’autorité prise dans le faux, tandis que la science est l’autorité pris...