Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having sa...
Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,—this is the ver...
It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the C...
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as...
Errors make excellent projectiles.
Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.
He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.
In the first love, the soul is taken far before the body; afterwards the body is taken far before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all...
He was fond of saying, There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only, he added, ours must be tranquil.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
He was not to perceive that of two men engaged in an action so hideous, he who permits the thing is worse than the man who does the work, because he is the coward!
He who does not weep does not see.
He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.
Her heart ached, but she took her resolution. It will be seen that Fantine possessed the stern courage of life.
His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the...
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man by the contrast between divine beauty and soc...
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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