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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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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

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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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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

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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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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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