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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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Love is reducing the universe to one being.

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

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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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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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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

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

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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

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