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Les Misérables (1862)
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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Indigestion was sent into the world to read a lecture to our stomachs...
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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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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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Born:
February 26, 1802
Died:
May 22, 1885
(aged 83)
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