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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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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

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To love is the half of to believe.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.

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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

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

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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

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