"A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun."
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"The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it."
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"To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well."
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"It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory"
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"The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights."
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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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"We are for religion against the religions."
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"Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available"
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"When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die."
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"All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes."
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"Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign."
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"The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell."
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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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"When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb."
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"Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere."
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"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."
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"A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield."
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"When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven."
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