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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

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There are no rules for felicity.

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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

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