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Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of me...more

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The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

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In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the day when all will be peace, harmony...more

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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and ...more

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Cosette, in her seclusion, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these ...more

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In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.

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In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. ...more

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If no one loved, the sun would go out.

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Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who think and those who s...more

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To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth

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What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.

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This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

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She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius...more

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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own d...more