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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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Vous créez un frisson nouveau.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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