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As the place is worth seeing, nobody goes there.
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mn shm r bjy dyn qbwl nmy khnm,shm ngl w aft dynyd...nfrty khh shm bh khwd jlb my khnyd bh dyn hm tthyr my bkhshd w mrdm r z an byzr my khnd... khlys bwd khh prynly r bh khTr yn skhn khh: "strgn z jy khwd nmyftnd!" b Drbt shlq mjrwH khrdh, khmpnl r bh khTr an khh z wjwd dnyhy byshmr dm zdh bwd, bh jrm dkhlt dr mr afrynsh byst w hft br bh zndn w shkhnjh mHkhwm khrd. "hrwy" r bry thbt jryn khwn r dr bdn, skht azr khrd ,"glylh" r bh khTr `tqds..
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Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. 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. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the gra..
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The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.
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The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)
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I mean that man is ruled by a tyrant whose name is Ignorance, and that is the tyrant I sought to overthrow. That is the tyrant which gave birth to monarchy, and monarchy is authority based on falsehood, whereas knowledge is authority based on truth. Man should be ruled by knowledge.
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Anzhol'ras, stoiavshii s ruzh'em v ruke na grebne zagrazhdeniia, podnial svoe prekrasnoe strogoe litso. Anzhol'ras, kak izvestno, byl iz porody spartantsev i puritan. On umer by pri Fermopilakh vmeste s Leonidom i szheg by Drokhedu vmeste s Kromvelem. - Granter! - kriknul on. - Poidi kuda-nibud', prospis'. Zdes' mesto op'ianeniiu, a ne p'ianstvu. Ne pozor' barrikadu. Eti gnevnye slova proizveli na Grantera neobychainoe vpechatlenie. Emu slo..
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He was indulgent to women and to the poor, oppressed by the weight of society. "The faults of women, children, and servants," he said, "and of the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the faults of husbands, fathers and masters, and of the strong, the rich and the learned." He also said: "Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education; it is responsible for the darkness it creates. The soul in darkn..
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To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.
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What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
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Let us never fear robbers not murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters is what threatens our heads or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.
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Venerons le chien. Le chien (quel drole de bete!), a sa sueur sur sa langue et son sourire dans sa queue.
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to be ultra is to go beyond. is to attack the scepter in the name of the throne, and the miter in the name of the alter; it is to mistreat the thing you support; it is to kick in the traces; is is to cavil at the stake for undercooking heretics; it is to reproach the idol for lack of idolatry; it is to insult through an excess of respect; it is to find to little papistry in the pope; in the king to little royalty, and too much light in the ..
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Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
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Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. To this there is but one reply: "In former days."
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It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.
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We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You must not forget that you have a chamber here, we want nothing more to do with the Rue de l'Homme Arme. We will have no more of it at all. How could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one is cold, and into one cannot enter? You are to come and install yourself here. And this ver..
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Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara.
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sqf gft: bry ykh frd rwHny, hmnqdr shj`t lzm st khh bry srhng swr w br yn gfthsh fzwd: fqT shj`t m, byd mlym bshd
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For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.
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A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.
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Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.
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However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
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He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being." He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by thi..
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This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial, -- there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation, -- are useful. It is of the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is composed. In this y..
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to the shore.
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Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.
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Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their desti..
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They are les miserables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?
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God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the plenitude of man.
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With love there is no middle course: it destroys, or else it saves. All human destiny is contained in that dilemma, the choice between destruction and salvation, which is nowhere more implacably posed than in love. Love is life, or it is death. It is the cradle, but also the coffin. One and the same impulse moves the human heart to say yes or no. Of all things God has created it is the human heart that sheds the brightest light, and, alas, ..
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Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
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Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit with Marius inside them. I suppose he was going to sit for an examination. He looked thoroughly silly.
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The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the door of ill and opened the door of good.
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Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science and wisdom grows thin.
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The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be accomplished by a simple elevation of level.
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To learn to read is to light a fire;
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Do you permit it?" Enjolras"
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Some odd things were found; among other things the skeleton of an ourang-outang which disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with the famous and incontestable appearance of the devil in the Rue des Bernardins in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil finally drowned himself in the sewer.
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For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added.
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In front marched Egypt. The Duke of Egypt at their head, on horseback, with his counts on foot, holding his bridle and stirrups; behind them the Egyptians, men and women, in any order, with their young children yelling on their shoulders; all of them, duke, counts, common people, in rags and tinsel. Then came the kingdom of the argot, that is to say, every thief in France, graded in order of rank, the lowest going in front. Thus there filed..
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The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past, not infrequently falsifies its passport.
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