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“A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired. ~ [introduction of character Montp...”
“Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.”
“The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.”
“This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in ...”
“...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority ...”
“At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, p...”
“Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; t...”
“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”
“This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interp...”
“Right is just and true.”
“The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.”
“If no one loved, the sun would go out.”
“She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.”
“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passionif no one loved, the sun would go out.”
“He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.”
“The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.”
“He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown grey before his time ...”
“The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.”
“He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.”
“Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter”
