Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.
He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read.
He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.
He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads...
He had enlightened Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one.
He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. These fashions have come round again, he said, old things are all the rage, and the young women of my ol...
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
He kissed the handkerchief, inhaled its perfume, put it over his heart, against his flesh in the daytime, and at night went to sleep with it on his lips.I feel her whole soul in it! he exclaimed.The h...
He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.
He never went out without a book under his arm and he often came home with two.
He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter is Parisian. In
He seemed to say to Fate: You wouldn't dare.
He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwa...
He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown.
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life.
He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.
Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.
His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.
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