I see black light (his last words)
Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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