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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

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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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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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