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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel. (Victor Hugo)
... there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables. View quote
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The mother... swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood. View quote
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables. View quote
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... where there is no more hope, song remains. View quote
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At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which is still so sombre, the miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. View quote
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On the day when the human conscience shall lose its bearings, on the day when success shall carry the day before that forum, all will be at an end. The last moral gleam will reascend to heaven. Darkness will be in the mind of man. You will have nothing to do but to devour one another, wild beasts that you are! View quote
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Be proud, Frenchmen! Lift high your heads, Frenchmen! You are no longer anything, and this man is everything! He holds in his hand your intelligence, as a child holds a bird. Any day he pleases, he can strangle the genius of France. View quote
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Now there is no more noise, no more confusion, no more talking, no more parliament, or parliamentarism. The Corps Législatif, the Senate, the Council of State, have all had their mouths sewn up. View quote
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We who combat them are "the eternal enemies of order.". We are-for they can as yet find nothing but this worn-out word-we are demagogues. In the language of the Duke of Alva, to believe in the sacredness of the human conscience, to resist the Inquisition, to brave the state for one's faith, to draw the sword for one's country, to defend one's worship, one's city, one's home, one's house, one's family, and one's God, was called vagabondism... The man is a demagogue in the nineteenth century, who in the sixteenth would have been a vagabond. View quote
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These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor. (Victor Hugo)
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. View quote
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. View quote
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned! View quote
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. View quote
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon. View quote
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. View quote
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. View quote
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. View quote
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The malicious have a dark happiness. View quote
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What makes night within us may leave stars. (Victor Hugo)
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. View quote
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. View quote
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. View quote
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In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. View quote
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