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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

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Morality is truth in full bloom.

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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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