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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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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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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

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There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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