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Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a ...more

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

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Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

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From Les Miserables:All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the o...more

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Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.

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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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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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He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in...more

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In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a lamp in the middle of the starry nig...more

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Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

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The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.

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It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

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He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.