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God made the water but men made the wine.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

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Another story must begin!

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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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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

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