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“In all Thnardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness,...”
“That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this...”
“From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty”
“Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.”
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who cau...”
“The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.”
“True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”
“The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.”
“This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed ...”
“What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.”
“Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affect...”
“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the...”
“Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.”
“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.”
“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
“They are les misrables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?”
“She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.”
“I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have n...”
“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love them; to enlarge their horizon to a magnificent extent; to...”
“It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which comb...”
