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Les Misérables (1862)
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At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which is still so sombre, the miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.
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Napoleon... mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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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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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
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One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse.
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It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
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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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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity, for the inn did not succeed well.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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Born:
February 26, 1802
Died:
May 22, 1885
(aged 83)
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