"I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer."
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"If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights."
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"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides."
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""Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana."
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"God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers."
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"Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority."
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"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."
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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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"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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"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."
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"A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free."
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"The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who."
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"Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand."
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"This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise."
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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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"As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all."
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"The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion."
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"War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war."
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"Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?"
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"Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself."
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