No corruption is possible with the diamond.
Victor HugoBut listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Victor HugoCould the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived?
Victor HugoThe girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?
Victor HugoThough we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
Victor HugoOne can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
Victor HugoIt all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
Victor HugoHere we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.
Victor HugoThe soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.
Victor HugoMan lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. a
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