An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three.
“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man by the contrast between divine beauty and ...”
“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”
“History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the ...”
“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
“He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.”
“Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,this is the v...”
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
“If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?”
“Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.”
“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to ...”
“Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter!”
“she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of paradise”
“Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.”