Author: Victor Hugo

Cites

• Victor Hugo (1)
  • IN: Les Misérables (1862) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human hell within civilization, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; while the three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness, continue unresolved; while in some regions social asphyxia remains possible; in other words, and in still wider terms, while ignorance and poverty persist on earth, books such as this cannot fail to be of value.
    FROM: Introduction to Les Miserables, (1862), Author, France

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• NULL (1)
  • IN: NULL (None) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
    FROM: The History of a Cime, (1877), Essay, France
• Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1)
  • IN: Dreams in a Time of War (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
    FROM: Les Miserables, (1862), NULL, France
• Susan Fletcher (1)
  • IN: A Little In Love (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Et puis, tenez, Monsieur Marius, je crois que j etaise un peu amoureuse de vous. (You know, Monsieur Marius, I think I was a little in love with you.)
    FROM: Les Miserables, (1862), NULL, France
• John Hornor Jacobs (1)
  • IN: The Conformity (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Kat Ross (1)
  • IN: Some Fine Day (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions -- and some fine day, that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all away.
    FROM: Les Miserables, (1862), Novel, France
• Lisa Ballantyne (1)
  • IN: The Guilty One (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness
    FROM: Les Miserables, (1862), Novel, France
• Leona Francombe (1)
  • IN: The Sage of Waterloo (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The conflict is there petrified; it lives, it dies; it was but yesterday. The walls are still in their final throes; the holes are wounds; the breaches are howling; the trees bend and shudder, as if making an effort to escape.
    FROM: Les Miserables, (1862), Novel, France
• Cara Black (1)
  • IN: Murder at the Lanterne Rouge (2012) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
    FROM: Les Misérables, (1862), Novel, France
• M.J Rose (2)
  • IN: Seduction (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
    FROM: Les Miserables, (1862), Novel, France
  • IN: The Witch of Painted Sorrows (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What makes night within us may leave stars
    FROM: Ninety-Three, (1874), Novel, France
• Matthew Guinn (1)
  • IN: The Scribe (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He sank deeper in the dark and the mist, aghast, Alone, and behind him, in the eternal nights, His wing feathers fell more slowly still.
    FROM: Et nox facta est, (1886), Poem, France
• Anton Strout (1)
  • IN: Alchemystic (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer art.
    FROM: Preface to Cromwell, (1827), NULL, France
• Juliet Blackwell (1)
  • IN: The Paris Key (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Alfred Noyes (1)
  • IN: The Flower of Old Japan (1907) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ô ciel ! toute la Chine est par terre en morceaux ! Ce vase pâle et doux comme un reflet des eaux, Couvert d'oiseaux, de fleurs, de fruits, et des mensonges De ce vague idéal qui sort du bleu des songes, Ce vase unique, étrange, impossible, engourdi, Gardant sur lui le clair de lune en plein midi, Qui paraissait vivant, où luisait une flamme, Qui semblait presque un monstre et semblait presque une âme,
    FROM: Le Pot Cassé, (1877), Poem, France
• Tim Winton (1)
  • IN: In the Winter Dark (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
    FROM: Toilers of the Sea, (1866), Novel, France
• Julia Stuart (1)
  • IN: The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Robin Black (1)
  • IN: Life Drawing (2014) Psychological Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
    FROM: Les Miserables, (1862), Novel, France
• Victor Hugo (1)
  • IN: Les Misérables (1862) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human hell within civilization, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; while the three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness, continue unresolved; while in some regions social asphyxia remains possible; in other words, and in still wider terms, while ignorance and poverty persist on earth, books such as this cannot fail to be of value.
    FROM: Introduction to Les Miserables, (1862), Author, France
• Sybille Bedford (1)
  • IN: A Compass Error (1968) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: Le passé est une partie de nous-même, la plus essentielle peut-être.
    FROM: Alpes et Pyrénées, (1839), Book, France