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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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

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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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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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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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Loving is half of believing.

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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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

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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

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The malicious have a dark happiness.

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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