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There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
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war
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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Victor Hugo |
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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victor
notre-dame
hugo
glass
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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The soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it. And that soul, found and proven, is a woman. A hand sustains you, it is hers; lips lightly touch your forehead, they are her lips; you hear breathing near you, it is she. To have her wholly, from her devotion to her pity, never to be left alone, to have that sweet shyness as, to lean on that unbending reed, to touch, Providence with your hands and be able to grasp it in your arms; God made ..
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man
death-penalty
punishment
vengeance
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul."
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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life
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.
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wisdom
inspirational
les-misérables
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
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grief
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel"
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In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. Even in the gigantic and the ideal, the dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from our innermost souls than our unreflected and indefi..
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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father-mabeuf
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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What about me?' said Grantaire. 'I'm here.' 'You?' 'Yes, me.' 'You? Rally Republicans! You? In defence of principles, fire up hearts that have grown cold!' 'Why not?' 'Are you capable of being good for something?' 'I have the vague ambition to be,' said Grantaire. 'You don't believe in anything.' 'I believe in you.' 'Grantaire, will you do me a favour?' 'Anything. Polish your boots.' 'Well, don't meddle in our affairs. Go and sleep off the ..
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enjolras
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Cosette, in her seclusion, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion,--these two souls which held love as two clouds hold lightning, and which were to meet and mingle in a glace like clouds in a flash. The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stor..
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love
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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loneliness
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Victor Hugo |
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
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profound
love
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Victor Hugo |
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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Victor Hugo |
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Ce n'est rien de mourir, C'est affreux de ne pas vivre.
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Victor Hugo |
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Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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Another story must begin!
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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
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Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when, within a man, it travels from his thought to his conscience and returns from his conscience to his thought. This is the only sense of the words, so often used in this chapter, "he said," "he exclaimed"; we say to ourselves, we speak to ourselves, we exclaim within ourselves,..
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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Victor Hugo |
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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Victor Hugo |
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! Cosette, my whole..
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remorse
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He who despairs is wrong.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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happiness
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What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion...if no one loved, the sun would go out.
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love
sun
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As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.
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Victor Hugo |
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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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Victor Hugo |
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Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. In the meanwhile, lov..
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Victor Hugo |
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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inspirational
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Victor Hugo |
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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