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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

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

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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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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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They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

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The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

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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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Reality in strong doses frightens.

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