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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquain — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens — it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour — light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
Praying to the Almighty, Javert?” called a voice, and Javert opened his eyes to see Rousseau and Leclerc smirking at him — Kelsey Brickl, Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved — loved for one's own sake-let us say rather in spite of one's self.
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay mo — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer — that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...
He loved books — books are cold but safe friends.
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war — there is only just and unjust war.
Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration af — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
To learn to read is to light a fire — every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future — a reflex from the future on the past.
Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under which the three child — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially crea — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form o — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
There are men who dig for gold — [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face — Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here — Victor Hugo