Les Misérables Quotes

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Joy is the reflex of terror.

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. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.

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Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

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The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Mar...

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Come fu che le loro labbra s'incontrarono? Come avviene che l'uccello canta, che la neve si scioglie, che la rosa sboccia, che maggio dà i suoi fiori, che l'alba imbianca dietro gli alberi neri le cime frementi delle colline? Un bacio, e fu tutto.

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L’argot n’est autre chose qu’un vestiaire où la langue, ayant quelque mauvaise action à faire, se déguise. Elle s’y revêt de mots masques et de métaphores haillons.

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Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

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Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?

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La lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle tremble.

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What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.

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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything b...

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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

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Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.

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