Liberation is not deliverance.
A mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God
Ne soyons plus anglais ni français ni allemands. Soyons européens. Ne soyons plus européens, soyons hommes. - Soyons l'humanité. Il nous reste à abdiquer un dernier égoïsme : la patrie.
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and destroy each other. Huge crabs devour fish and are de...
On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no mor...
He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.
People do not lack strength they lack will.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused...
Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.
France is great because she is France.
Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee...
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Анжольрас, стоявший с ружьем в руке на гребне заграждения, поднял свое прекрасное строгое лицо. Анжольрас, как известно, был из породы спартанцев и пуритан. Он умер бы при Фермопилах вместе с Леонидом...
The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, the...
Because things are not agreeable, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.