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Les Misérables (1862)
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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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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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
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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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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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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 smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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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.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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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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For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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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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There is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word 'she.
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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at a time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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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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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
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Born:
February 26, 1802
Died:
May 22, 1885
(aged 83)
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