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The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden.
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The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.
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She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit ..
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romance
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Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ.
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weep for them all," the bishop said. "Equally," G------ exclaimed, "and if the balance tips, let it be on the side of the people: They have suffered longer."
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Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read
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Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.
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love
table-talk
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Se per caso capiva che la sua infermita si tradisse per qualche apostrofe incoerente o per qualche domanda inintelligibile, la cosa passava per profondita presso alcuni, per imbecillita presso altri. In ambedue i casi l'onore della magistratura era salvo, perche un giudice puo essere benissimo profondo o imbecille a suo piacere, ma sordo no.
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He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.
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As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.
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Tomorrow, at dawn, the moment the countryside is washed with daylight, I will leave. You see, I know that you wait for me. I will go through forest, I will go across the mountains. I cannot rest far from you for long. I will trudge on, my eyes fixed on my thoughts, Without seeing what is outside of myself, without hearing a single sound, Alone, unknown, back bent, hands crossed, Sad, and the day for me will be like the night. I will not loo..
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This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.
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The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.
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The two friends set out towards "Eve's Apple." It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them."
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We must be brief.
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if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming degraded are rare;
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Un incendie peut faire une aurore sans doute, mais pourquoi ne pas attendre le lever du jour ? Un volcan eclaire, mais l'aube eclaire encore mieux. Combeferre preferait peut-etre la blancheur du beau au flamboiement du sublime.
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Vi sono cose che non si deve neppure tentare di dipingere: il sole e fra queste.
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les-misérables
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that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, where nothing is complete.
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long as the three great problems of the century--the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved;
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Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows them to us in order to induce us to reflect.
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It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.
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happiness
making-others-happy
shared-happiness
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but that it has moved forward.
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Sydanta sarkevaa oli nahda taman pienen lapsiraukan, joka ei ollut viela kuudenkaan vanha, talvipakkasessa vanhojen rikkinaisten ryysyjensa verhoamana, varisten lakaisevan katua jo ennen paivan koittoa, suunnaton luuta pienissa punaisissa katosissaan ja kyynel silmakulmassa.
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Ystavani, painakaa mieleenne, ettei ole olemassa enempaa huonoja kasveja kuin huonoja ihmisiakaan. On vain huonoja viljelijoita. (Jean Valjean)
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Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.
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He flew into a rage on every occasion, most frequently when wrong.
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and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful word. They are les miserables- the outcasts, the underdogs.
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ynbGy l yHkm l bslTn l`lm -- wlDmyr - lDmyr hw l`lm ldhy fy dht nfwsn
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Aucun penseur n'oserait dire que le parfum de l'aubepine est inutile aux constellations.
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La nuit fait des distributions d'essence stellaire aux fleurs endormies.
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lqd hdmtm . n lhdm qd ykwn mfyd, wlkny l 'thq bhdm ymzjh lGDb -- n ll`dl@ GDbh, y sydy lsqf. wGDb l`dl@ `ml mn `wml ltqdm. w`l~ lrGm mn jmy` lmz`m fn lthwr@ lfrnsy@ hy `Zm khTw@ khTh ljns lbshry fy mydn ltqdm S76
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This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and killed several panes of glass.
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We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, live by faith,--we have never been able to think without a sort of tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is not yet open, turned towards the ..
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M. Myriel devait subir le sort de tout nouveau venu dans une petite ville ou il y a beaucoup de bouches qui parlent et fort peu de tetes qui pensent.
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Que faut-il pour faire evanouir ces larves? de la lumiere. De la lumiere a flots. Pas une chauve-souris ne resiste a l'aube. Eclairez la societe en dessous.
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Il n'y a rien de tel pour epier les actions des gens que ceux qu'elles ne regardent pas.
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In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire it, like de M..
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Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which goes and comes, mounts, descends, and ..
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I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble nation of the sea, to the island of Guernsey, severe yet kind, my present asylum, my probable tomb.
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Want de liefde is als een boom, die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die blijft uitlopen ook als het hart verbrijzeld is.
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Victor Hugo |
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after philosophy, action is required;
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Victor Hugo |
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Children have their morning song as well as birds.
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