His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.
Weitere Zitate von Victor Hugo
Zum Autor"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
"In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open."
"Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God."
"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said."
"The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven."
"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."