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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

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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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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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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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When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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