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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!

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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.

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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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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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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

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