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The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.
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Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.
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Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace.
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Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment.
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God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.
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Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars.
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The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it.
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Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.
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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
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the winter always bears away with it a portion of our sadness;
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In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday.
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Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be a contradiction between the look in her eyes, which tended to melancholy, and the brightness of her smile. This had a somewhat disconcerting effect, so that at moments her charming face was puzzling without ceasing to be delightful"."
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One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning.
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Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be a contradiction between the look in her eyes, which tended to melancholy, and the brightness of her smile. This had a somewhat disconcerting effect, so that at moments her charming face was puzzling without ceasing to be delightful.
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It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be?
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While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human hell within civilization, and complicates with human fatality and destiny that is divin; while the three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness, continue unresolved; while in some regions so..
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Whatever may be happening today, peace is the meaning of tomorrow
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Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.
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Everything can be parodied, even parody.
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Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven.
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Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of all distresses, the coldest.
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Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical with the persistence of the I.
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Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.
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The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.
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Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most beautiful of all your nam..
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterward. Nothing is more real than those great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.
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What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!
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All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; and
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Every one 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"
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about society buying itself a slave. Who from? From destitution. From hunger, from cold, from loneliness, from abandonment, from dire poverty. A painful bargain. A soul for a bit of bread. Destitution makes an offer, society gives the nod. The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it has not yet managed to permeate it. They say slavery has vanished from European civilization. That is wrong. It still exists, but it now pre..
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Ai desaparece o desinteresse e divisa-se o vago esboco do demonio; cada qual para si. O eu sem olhos uiva, procura, apalpa e roi. Existe nesse golfao o Ugolino social. As figuras ferozes que giram nessa cova, quase animais, quase fantasmas, nao se ocupam do progresso universal, cuja ideia ignoram; so cuidam de saciar-se cada uma a si mesma. Quase lhes falta a consciencia, e parece haver uma especie de amputacao terrivel dentro delas. Sao d..
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The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it
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Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.
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Sunshine helps to make man patient.
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composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live
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Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, th..
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
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Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of.
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When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On
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Nous ne sommes pas de ceux qui flattent la guerre; quand l'occasion s'en presente, nous lui disons ses verites. La guerre a d'affreuses beautes que nous n'avons point cachees; elle a aussi, convenons-en, quelques laideurs. Une des plus surprenantes, c'est le prompt depouillement des morts apres la victoire. L'aube qui suit une bataille se leve toujours sur des cadavres nus.
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Les contre-facons du passe prennent de faux noms et s'appellent volontiers l'avenir. Ce revenant, le passe, est sujet a falsifier son passe-port. Mettons-nous au fait du piege. Defions-nous. Le passe a un visage, la superstition, et un masque, l'hypocrisie. Denoncons le visage et arrachons le masque.
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