This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed wit...
Seated on a paving-stone near Enjolras, Courfeyrac continued to jeer at the cannon, and every passage of that sinister cloud of projectiles that is called grapeshot, accompanied by its monstrous din,...
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?
Ne može se spriječiti misao da se vrati samoj sebi, kao što se ne može spriječiti more da se vrati obali. Za mornara, to se zove plima; za krivca, to se zove grižnja savjesti. Bog podiže dušu kao i oc...
Ima jedan prizor koji je veći od mora, to je nebo; ima jedan prizor koji je veći od neba, to je unutrašnjost duše.
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to lovel
You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his dream; I would like to live till dawn, but I know I have less than three hours left. I...
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
Let us never fear robbers or murders. Those are dangerous from without, Teddy dangerous. Let us be ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie withi...
Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
A mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God
Now for my pains, promise me-And she hesitated.What? asked Marius.Promise me!I promise you.Promise to kiss me on the forehead when I’m dead. I’ll feel it.She let her head fall back on Marius’s knees a...
If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh vali...
Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.