It seems to me that I am shooting a flower.
It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.
Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.
Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis.
No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections.
One day the air was mild, the Luxembourg was flooded with sun and shade, the sky was as pure as if angels had rinsed it that morning, the sparrows were twittering deep in the chestnut trees, Marius ha...
PREFACIOMientras exista, a consecuencia de las leyes y de las costumbres, una condena social que cree artificialmente infiernos en plena civilización, y enturbie con una fatalidad humana el destino, q...
Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other all the dawn; stri...
Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing each other, they cannot write to each other; they discove...
Plea Against the Death Penalty
Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.
Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the idea of duty, are things that, when in error, can turn hideous, but – even though hideous – remain great; their majesty, peculiar to the human conscience, p...
Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to...
Proper distribution does not imply an equal share but an equitable share. Equity is the essence of equality.
Protect the workers, encourage the rich.
Red is an all-embracing colour,' said the bishop. 'How fortunate that those who despise it in a bonnet revere it in a hat.
Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am nothing; I call myself Count Nothing, the senator. Did I exist before my birth?...
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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