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Demain, des l'aube, a l'heure ou blanchit la campagne, Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m'attends. J'irai par la foret, j'irai par la montagne. Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps. Je marcherai les yeux fixes sur mes pensees, Sans rien voir au dehors, sans entendre aucun bruit, Seul, inconnu, le dos courbe, les mains croisees, Triste, et le jour pour moi sera comme la nuit. Je ne regarderai ni l'or du soir qui tombe, Ni les v..
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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals aft..
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sacrifice
selfishness
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By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?
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les-misérables
revolution
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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openness
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Oh! Everything I loved!
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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stupidity
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No army can stop an idea whose time has come
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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Victor Hugo |
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Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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m-bienvenu
m-welcome
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For Marius to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. Hard years, and difficult ones; those to get through, these to climb. Marius had never given up for a single day. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. He gave himself this credit, that he had never owed a sou to anybody. For him a debt was the beginning of slavery. He felt even that a creditor is worse than..
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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No fear, no regrets.
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows. A burst of laughter starts from a scene of emotion. In a moment of buffoonery, the serious enters. Impulses depend on a chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign. A jest suffices to open the door to the unexpected. They are conferences with sharp turns, whe..
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As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, self-sacrifice, confidence, study, and work, filled up each day of his life. Filled up is exactly the phrase; and in fact, the Bishop's day was full to the brim with good thoughts, good words, and good actions. Yet it was not complete if cold or rainy weather prevented..
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Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends..
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morality
poverty-alleviation
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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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This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.
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The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.
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I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.
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frollo
hunchback-of-notre-dame
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Le supreme bonheur de la vie, c'est la conviction qu'on est aime; aime pour soi-meme, disons mieux, aime malgre soi-meme.
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love
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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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Victor Hugo |
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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.
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I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.
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treason
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superfluous
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was sw..
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cosette
inseparable
jean-valjean
les-misérables
crying
sad
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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly's wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove..
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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Homo homini monstrum
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monster
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
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When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!
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hunchback-of-notre-dame
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