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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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Right is right only when entire.

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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

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