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For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.
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He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601.
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But you are good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." CHAPTER"
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To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It
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I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." The"
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He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, and
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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. Only since animals are mere shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on them intelligence..
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Old men need affection as they need the sun.
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Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.
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extremity.
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Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.
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As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as these three problems of the century - man's debasement through the proletariat, women's demoralization through hunger, the wasting of a child through darkness - are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in some areas, in other words, a..
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There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.
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in becoming malicious he only picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded. He
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In these aspirations, much more than in deliberate, rational coordinated ideas, is the real character of a man to be found. Our chimeras are the things which the most resemble us. Each
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Because things are unpleasant," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust toward God."
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A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired. ~ [ introduction of character Montparnasse ]
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fanfic-inspiration
hot-villain
metrosexual
montparnasse
sexy-villain
yaoi-fetish-fuel
yaoi-material
hot
villain
cute
handsome
sexy
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True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do.
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The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.
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society
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Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education; and society will answer for the obscurity it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sin will be committed. The guilty party is not he who has sinned but he who created the darkness in the first place.
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her nose was not handsome-- it was pretty; neither straight nor curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to despair, and charms poets.
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Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?
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good-and-evil
good
souls
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Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?
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He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, "Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven."
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heaven
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Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for the night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than anyone.
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When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back.
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sleep
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The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...
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To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.
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society
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His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.
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visions
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The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.
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logic
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Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
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rhythm
style
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The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There
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for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart!
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He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter is Parisian. In
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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. Only
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Tal es la explicacion de la guerra, que es algo que lleva a cabo la humanidad contra la humanidad pese a la humanidad.
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In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.
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He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.
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Her heart turned dark at the place that had been his.
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one speaks to one's self, talks to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because they are not visible and palpable.
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She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.
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She took recourse to the expedient of constantly terrified children. She lied.
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Penetrate, at certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within him, and wh..
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On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like
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