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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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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

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God knows better than we do what we need.

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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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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.

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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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