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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. (Victor Hugo)
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. View quote
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. View quote
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. View quote
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The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had nothewould be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has aThisof the infinite is God. View quote
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Cimourdain believed that, in social geneses, the extreme point is the solid earth; an error peculiar to minds which replace reason with logic. View quote
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Cimourdain knew everything and nothing. He knew everything about science, and nothing at all about life. Hence his inflexibility. View quote
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In the twentieth century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, animosity will be dead, royalty will be dead, and dogmas will be dead; but Man will live. For all there will be but one country-that country the whole earth; for all there will be but one hope-that hope the whole heaven. View quote
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This type is the grotesque; its new form is comedy. View quote
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Behold, then, a new religion, a new society; upon this twofold foundation there must inevitably spring up a new poetry. View quote
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Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had "the absolute" within him. (Victor Hugo)
Social problems surpass frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map. View quote
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Christianity leads poetry to the truth. Like it, the modern muse will see things in a higher and broader light. It will realize that everything in creation is not humanly beautiful, that the ugly exists beside the beautiful, the unshapely beside the graceful, the grotesque on the reverse of the sublime, evil with good, darkness with light. View quote
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_) View quote
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Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you. View quote
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There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots. View quote
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Be serious,” said Enjolras. "I am wild,” replied Grantaire. View quote
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Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles? View quote
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Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour. View quote
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One does not cross-examine a saint. View quote
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To confide is sometime to deliver into a person's power. (Victor Hugo)
At what hour, please? retort to Victor Cousin, after he claimed he could pinpoint the start of the (perceived) decay of the French language: 1978. View quote
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As for how you pray, the words do not matter if they are sincere. Turn your prayer book upside down and face the infinite. View quote
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If we're just a thousand, then, here I am! Even if They're just a hundred, still I face Sylla; If ten still stand, I'll be the tenth; And if there is only one left, I'll be this one! View quote
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He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried, He lived, and when he lost his angel, died. It happened calmly, on its own. The way night comes when day is done. View quote
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