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To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul.
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I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people
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les-misérables
revolution
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.
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Victor Hugo |
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Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.
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Victor Hugo |
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Tu viens d'incendier la Bibliotheque ? - Oui. J'ai mis le feu la. - Mais c'est un crime inoui ! Crime commis par toi contre toi-meme, infame ! Mais tu viens de tuer le rayon de ton ame ! C'est ton propre flambeau que tu viens de souffler ! Ce que ta rage impie et folle ose bruler, C'est ton bien, ton tresor, ta dot, ton heritage Le livre, hostile au maitre, est a ton avantage. Le livre a toujours pris fait et cause pour toi. Une bibliotheq..
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I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside them.
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n lrd@ lTyb@ l tDyf bSl@ wHd@ l~ lHs, wh~ l tSlH l lldhhb l~ ljn@
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I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.
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might-is-right
winning-people-over
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Running beer gathers no foam.
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Victor Hugo |
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L'homme a sur lui la chair, qui est tout a la fois son fardeau et sa tentation. Il la traine et lui cede.
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fardeau
tentation
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Victor Hugo |
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There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.
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philosophy
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Victor Hugo |
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where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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Victor Hugo |
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Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.
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Victor Hugo |
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Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.
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revolution
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Victor Hugo |
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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Victor Hugo |
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He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars.
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Large sums passed through his hands. Nevertheless, nothing changed his way of life or added the slightest luxury to his simple life. Quite the contrary, As there is always more misery at the lower end than humanity at the top, everything was given away before it was received, like water on parched soil. No matter how much money came to him, he never had enough. And then he robbed himself.
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Victor Hugo |
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Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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Victor Hugo |
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It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which combines all the material elements, and into which no moral element enters.
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Victor Hugo |
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It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is itself which creates them.
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Victor Hugo |
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Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.
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Victor Hugo |
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n ll'Hdth lkbyr@ dhywlan lyst fy lHsbn
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Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.
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Victor Hugo |
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Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there converted into evil.
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The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal.
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Viaggiare e nascere e morire in ogni momento. Forse, nella piu vaga regione della sua mente, faceva accostamenti tra quei mutevoli orizzonti e l'esistenza umana. Tutte le cose della vita sono continuamente in fuga davanti a noi. Gli ottenebramenti e le luci si frammischiano: dopo un abbagliamento, un'eclisse; si guarda, ci si affretta, si tendono le mani per afferrare cio che passa; ogni evento e una svolta della strada; e d'un tratto si e ..
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Victor Hugo |
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Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.
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Victor Hugo |
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Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- "The French Revolution!"
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Victor Hugo |
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Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself.
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Victor Hugo |
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There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his mine. Pain everywhere was an occasion for goodness always.
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Victor Hugo |
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It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.
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Victor Hugo |
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Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis.
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Victor Hugo |
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No corruption is possible with the diamond.
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Victor Hugo |
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With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators."
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men
compassion
wisdom
plants
weeds
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Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!
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The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our knowing why, that because we have received an almost imperceptible blow from a chance word, the heart insensibly empties itself of love. He who loves, perceives a decline in his happiness. There is nothing more to be dreaded than this slow exudation from the fissure in the vase.
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love
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Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.
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Victor Hugo |
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I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!
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money
poverty
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Victor Hugo |
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He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown.
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Victor Hugo |
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It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army.
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Victor Hugo |
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The world is like Olympus - even a thief is accepted in it if he is also a god.
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Victor Hugo |
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There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.
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Victor Hugo |
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It has been calculated that what with salvos, royal and military politeness, courteous exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots. At six francs a sh..
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Victor Hugo |
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This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart.
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duty
regret
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