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...Nobody knows like a woman h...

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

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...It all seemed to him to hav...

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

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Here we stop. On the threshold...

Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.

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These are true felicities. No ...

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

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To love or have loved, that is...

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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He caught her, she fell, he ca...

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

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The eye of a man should be sti...

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly's wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecr

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For there are many great deeds...

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

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There is a determined though u...

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

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The jostling of young minds ag...

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows. A burst of laughter starts from a scene of emotion. In a moment of buffoonery, the serious enters. Impulses depend on a chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign. A jest suffices to open the door to the unexpected. They are conferences with sharp turns, where the perspective suddenly changes. Chance is the director of these conversatio

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At that moment of love, a mome...

At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette's dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

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What happened between those tw...

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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Winter is on my head, but eter...

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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Idleness, pleasure, what abyss...

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

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The future has several names. ...

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

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He was at his own request and ...

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

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Sire, you are looking at a pla...

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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The holy law of Jesus Christ g...

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

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Each of our passions, even lov...

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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Monsieur' to a convict is a gl...

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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