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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering b...more

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and i...more

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Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night!

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To love another person is to see the face of God.

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Love is the only future God offers.

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Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards ...more

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Without seeking to comprehend the incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled by Him.

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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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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he rea...more

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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 ...more

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He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkne...more

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Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

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The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.