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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
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life
philosophy
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mdm thmW@ - bsbb mn lqnwn wl`rf - hlkun jtm`y ykhlq Sn`y w`l~ mra~ mn lHDr@ wmsm` , Drwban mn ljHym `l~ l'rD , wy`qd fy qD bshry mHtwm mSyran hw lhyun , mdmt mshklt l`Sr lthlth "lHT mn qdr lrjl blfqr , wtHTym krm@ lmr'@ bljw` , wtqzym lTfwl@ bljhl" lmW tuHl b`d , mdm lkhtnq ljtm`y mmknan myzl ... mdm `l~ Zhr hdhh l'rD jhlun wbw's , fn kutban mthl hdh lktb lymkn 'n tkwn Gyra dhti Gn"
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فيكتور-هيجو
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He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.
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reading
books
love-of-reading
love-of-books
reader
book-quotes
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. 'The Spirit is a garden,' said he
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but ..
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humor
gavroche
les-mis
les-misérables
rats
horror
victor-hugo
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-
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And if you wish to receive of the ancient city an impression with which the modern one can no longer furnish you, climb--on the morning of some grand festival, beneath the rising sun of Easter or of Pentecost--climb upon some elevated point, whence you command the entire capital; and be present at the wakening of the chimes. Behold, at a signal given from heaven, for it is the sun which gives it, all those churches quiver simultaneously. Fi..
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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chapter-iv
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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Victor Hugo |
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This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Ale..
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history
kings
legacy
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Victor Hugo |
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Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it if something threatens are head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens the soul.
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quotes-by-the-bishop-in-les-mis
religion-christianity
les-mis
les-misérables
victor-hugo
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes..
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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
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in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these skeletons, which was that of a woman, still had a few strips of a garment which had once been white, and around her neck was to be seen a string of adrezarach beads with a little silk bag ornamented with green glass, which was open and empty. These objects were of so little value that the executioner had pr..
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Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century; look at the light through that surprising host of steeples, towers, and belfries; pour forth amid the immense city, break against the points of its islands, compress within the arches of the bridges, the current of the Seine, with its large patches of green and yellow, more changeable than a ..
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scenery
houses
description
paris
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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Victor Hugo |
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He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding existence, been through the revolutionary apocalypse. He knew its tradition like an eyewitness. He knew every little detail of that great thing. A pontifical and warrior nature, strange in a youth. He was officiating and militant; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of democracy; above the movement of the t..
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revolution
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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Victor Hugo |
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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Victor Hugo |
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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Throughout the month of May, every night, in that poor, wild garden, under that shrubbery, each day, more perfumed and dense, two human beings composed of every chastity and every innocence, every flowing with all the felicities of Heaven, closer to archangels than men, pure, honest, intoxicated, radiant, glowed for each other in the darkness. It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette had a halo. They touched,..
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables"
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Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the idea of duty, are things that, when in error, can turn hideous, but - even though hideous - remain great; their majesty, peculiar to the human conscience, persists in horror. They are virtues with a single vice - error. The pitiless, sincere joy of a fanatic in an act of atrocity preserves some mournful radiance that inspires veneration. Without suspecting it, Javert, in his dreadful happiness, wa..
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God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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god
truth
definition
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Victor Hugo |
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This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.
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Victor Hugo |
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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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les-misérables
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Victor Hugo |
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He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.
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sky
infinite
ocean
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Victor Hugo |
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Et puis, tenez, monsieur Marius,je crois que j'etais un peu amoureuse de vous.
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pontmercy
thénardier
Éponine
marius
les-misérables
last-words
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Victor Hugo |
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Victor Hugo |
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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Victor Hugo |
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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les-misérables
terror
victor-hugo
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Victor Hugo |
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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so 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; so long as social asphyxia i..
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poverty
political
les-misérables
society
victor-hugo
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Victor Hugo |
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where there is no more hope, song remains.
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hopelessness
music
song
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Victor Hugo |
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If they had had a different neighbour, one less self-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-signals would have been heard, and perhaps they would have been rescued by now. Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes..
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Victor Hugo |
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Now for my pains, promise me-" And she hesitated. "What?" asked Marius. "Promise me!" "I promise you." "Promise to kiss me on the forehead when I'm dead. I'll feel it." She let her head fall back on Marius's knees and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless, but just when Marius supposed her forever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes, revealing the somber depths of death, and said to him in an accent wh..
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death
Éponine
marius
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Victor Hugo |
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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Victor Hugo |