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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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