A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.)
Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...]Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.
[THE END OF VOLUME I. FANTINE]
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