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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

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

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

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Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

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People do not read stupidities with impunity.

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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