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- There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,…
- To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do…
- Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
- 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…
- To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch.…
- 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…
- One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is…
- He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,…
- The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will…
- At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable…
- 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,…
- The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire…
- His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
- Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be…
- He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
- Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the…
- In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter…
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