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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

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Are you afraid of the good you might do?

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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

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