چیزی که این مرد را نورانی می‌کرد، قلب بود. عقلش نیز از نوری ساخته شده بود که از قلبش بیرون می‌آمد
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كم أنت سعيد أن يكون لك من يحبك // كوازيمودو
قال : هل تعرفين ما تعنيه الصداقة؟أجابت الغجرية: نعم, إنها أن نكون أخا وأختا, أن نكون روحين تتجاوران ولكنهما لا تتداخلان, كما تكون إصبعان من أصابع اليد الواحدة.
فروماندگان به قفای خود نمی‌نگرند. خوب می‌دانند که بخت بد همه‌جا دنبالشان می‌کند
سنري رجال الثوب الكهنوتى يأكلون اللحم البشري، فهو مشهد ككل مشهد آخر
الحب ! هو أ نكون اثنين ثم لا نكون إلا واحداً فقط . رجل وامرأه يذوبان معاً في ملاك ، إنه السماء
إن القلب البشري لا يستطيع أن يحتوي إلا علي كمية محدودة من اليأس ومن ثم ففي وسع البحر أن يمر فوق الإسفنجة دون أن يضيف إلي مائها دمعة واحدة بعد أن تبتل وتمتلئ به
What can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.
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; there are refu...
The highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
That which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
Some even affirmed that they had passed the night across the threshold of the great door, in order to make sure that they should be the first to pass in. The crowd
One felt the sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings.
Novels
Momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.
Long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved;
If they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of distress would have be...
For that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart!
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.