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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Love is reducing the universe to one being.

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The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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