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To confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power.
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There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.
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It is necessary, for the sake of the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust po..
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Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother may not fall into sin on our account.
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They pray. To whom? To God. To pray to God, - what is the meaning of these words? Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can attribute t..
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Everyone has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they are, and because they a..
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Factions are blind men who aim correctly.
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A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
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Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true.
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The memory of an absent being kindles in the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; the star of the inner night.
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Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it.
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our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.
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Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.
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If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.
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Ignominy thirsts for consideration.
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It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance.
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It is the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear.
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Society absolutely must look into these things since they are its own work.
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How pretty it is here!" It was an awful hovel, but she felt free."
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The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.
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Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At
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But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us..
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The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.
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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of
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What took place next in the fate of M. Myriel?
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one of those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody.
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It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.
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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.
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sake of exactness
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Le sens revolutionnaire est un sens moral. Le sentiment du droit, developpe, developpe le sentiment du devoir. La loi de tous, c'est la liberte, qui finit ou commence la liberte d'autrui, selon l'admirable definition de Robespierre.
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in circulation
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in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a little of that misery, like the dust ..
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It behooved wise people to play the part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to fasten the doors well.
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pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene
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What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery.
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In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name.
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Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth.
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Properly speaking, he no longer held opinions; he had sympathies. To which party did he belong? To the party of humanity.
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Great perils share this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps.
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Do you want a priest?" "I have one." answered Jean Valjean."
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With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself.
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Hommes et femmes de Londres, me voici. Je vous felicite cordialement d'etre anglais. Vous etes un grand peuple. Je dis plus, vous etes une grande populace. Vos coups de poing sont encore plus beaux que vos coups d'epee. Vous avez de l'appetit. Vous etes la nation qui mange les autres. Fonction magnifique. Cette succion du monde classe a part l'Angleterre. Comme politique et philosophie, et maniement des colonies, populations, et industries,..
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angleterre
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