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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

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

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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