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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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He who despairs is wrong.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
Victor Hugo