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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

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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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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

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

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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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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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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