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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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