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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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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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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

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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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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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