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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

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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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A wedding is not house-keeping.

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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

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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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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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