“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Varianta: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Varianta: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“There are things stronger than the strongest man…”
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“by making himself a priest made himself a demon.”
Zdroj: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor.”
Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!
Hernani (1830), Act IV, Scene II http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Hernani#ACTE_4
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
Zdroj: Les Misérables
Varianta: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux.
Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874), Book VII, Chapter V http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Quatre-vingt-treize_-_III%2C_7#V_LE_CACHOT
Ninety-Three (1874)
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
Varianta: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
Varianta: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
Zdroj: Les Misérables
Varianta: There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
“Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
Unpublished notebook from 1845-50. Published in Seebacher (ed.), Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 10, p. 158 (Laffont, 1989). English translation from Robb, Victor Hugo p. 249 (Norton, 1997).
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
Zdroj: The Hunchback of Notre Dame