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

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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

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