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In short, between men and women you want..." "Equality." "Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures." "I said equality. I didn't say identity."
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Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake -- let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.
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Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their desti..
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the same flesh during, the same ashes after life. But ignorance, mixed with the human composition, blackens it. This incurable ignorance possesses the heart of man, and there becomes evil.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing instruction for all and it must answer for the night with it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. (Bishop of D)
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Unable to rid myself of it, since I heard your song humming ever in my head, beheld your feet dancing always on my breviary, felt even at night, in my dreams, your form in contact wih my own, I desired to see you again, to touch you, to know who you were, to see whether I should really find you like the ideal image which I had retained of you, to shatter my dream, perchance with reality. At all events, I hoped that a new impression would ef..
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Every summit seems an exaggeration. Climbing wearies. The steepnesses take away one's breath; we slip on the slopes, we are hurt by the sharp points which are its beauty; the foaming torrents betray the precipices, clouds hide..
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prodigy
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Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God."
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justice
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Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again. "What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul." --
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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wl z hmh bryt arzwmndm khh `shq shwy, w gr hsty, khsy hm bh tw `shq bwrzd, w gr yngwnh nyst, tnhy'yt khwth bshd, w ps z tnhy'yt, nfrt z khsy nyby . arzwmndm khh yngwnh pysh nyyd, m gr pysh amd, bdny chgwnh bh dwr z nmydy zndgy khny . bryt hmchnn arzw drm dwstny dshth bshy, z jmlh dwstn bd w npydr, brkhy ndwst, w brkhy dwstdr khh dstkhm ykhy dr mynshn bytrdyd mwrd `tmdt bshd.w chwn zndgy bdyn gwnh st, bryt arzwmndm khh dshmn ny..
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What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defencelessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: a human soul for a hunk of bread. Poverty offers and society accepts.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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M. Mabeuf's political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
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ltshkk: ltswWs ldhy ySyb lfkr
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
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On ne lit pas impunement des niaiseries
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so powerfully intervened; that human justice from which he had snatched its prey; all those tigers whose jaws perforce remained empty; those myrmidons, those judges, those executioners, all that royal power which he, poor, insignificant being, had foiled with t..
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Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant glance of the transfigured drunken man. He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: "..
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If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!
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As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit; but it is a submission which makes the heart bleed.
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Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
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a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God
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recluse
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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fy m mD~ srqt rGyf lky '`ysh , lknny lywm 'srq sm lky `ysh .
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He who does not weep does not see.
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Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.
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A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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Victor Hugo |
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Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose que deja ton coeur avait repondu.
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Victor Hugo |
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He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.
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