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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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

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Love is a fault; so be it.

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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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