Quotes about Contrast

any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.

Si tout autour de moi, est monotone et décoloré, n'y a-t-il pas en moi une tempête, une lutte, une tragédie?

The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life, is and overpowering thing.

Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.

Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy.

It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.

It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.

But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.

It was Gwynplaine's laugh which created the laughter of others, yet he did not laugh himself. His face laughed; his thoughts did not. The extraordinary face which chance or a special and weird industry had fashioned for him, laughed alone. Gwynplaine had nothing to do with it.

It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.