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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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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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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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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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To love is the half of to believe.
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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