Quotes of: Les Keyword

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

Les Diaboliques

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Più che altro, però, avevo avuto la sensazione di avere bisogno del cielo immenso e di quello spazio infinito per far sembrare le mie rivelazioni abbastanza piccole e sopportabili

Life Drawing

guido per le strade, ad un passo dal pianto, vergognandomi del mio sentimentalismo e del mio possibile amore.

Love is a Dog from Hell

La fécondité absurde de la femme l'empêchait de participer activement à l'accroissement de ces ressources tandis qu'elle créait indéfiniment de nouveaux besoins.

Le deuxième sexe I

Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus ; après la philosophie il faut l’action ; la vive force achève ce que l’idée a ébauché.

Les Misérables

La suprema dicha de la vida, es la convicción de que se es amado; amado por sí mismo, digamos mejor, ama¬do a pesar de sí mismo.

Les Misérables

The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.

Les Misérables

Madame Magloire," retorted the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps.

Les Misérables

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

Les Misérables

He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be tranquil.

Les Misérables

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Les Misérables

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

Les Misérables

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Les Misérables

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark... To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.

Les Misérables

Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.

Les Misérables

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Les Misérables

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Les Misérables

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

Les Misérables

Si llamáramos a las tumbas y preguntáramos a los muertos si les gustaría levantarse otra vez, nos dirían que no.

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