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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; this conviction the blind man possesses.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“He who does not weep does not see.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off.”
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Les Misérables
“Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.”
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Les Misérables
“The only social peril is darkness. Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.”
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Les Misérables
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often returned with two.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at once, both sweet and deep.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer...”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way people do fall in love,...”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”
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Les Misérables
“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.”
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Les Misérables
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.”
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Les Misérables
“Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.”
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Les Misérables
“And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness.”
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Les Misérables
“Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps.”
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Les Misérables
“If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”
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Les Misérables
“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?”
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Les Misérables
“There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”
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Les Misérables
“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”
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Les Misérables
“The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.”
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Les Misérables
“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”
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Les Misérables
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
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Les Misérables
“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.”
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Les Misérables
“To die for lack of love is horrible.”
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Les Misérables
“I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is worth nothing. One breaks one’s neck in living.”
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Les Misérables
“God knows better than we what we need.”
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Les Misérables
“The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of imagination.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those three letters of that word: She.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.”
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Les Misérables
“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all-sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty!”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“The work is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, it becomes terrible.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”
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Les Misérables
“Love is the folly of men and the wit of God.”
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Les Misérables
“We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not need to understand the words that they utter.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
“The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.”
Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
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