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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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With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble...more

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[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

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We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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Those who do not weep, do not see.

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Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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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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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilizati...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

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What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrif...more

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where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

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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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Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the P...more