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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

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The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

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