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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a ...more

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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 b...more

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Make thought a whirlwind.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime...more

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And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and,...more

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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he rea...more

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Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior ...more

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but tha...more

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He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

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In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great ...more

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Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under which the three children lay.It consisted of a mult...more