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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a ...more

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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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To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear ...more

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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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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si mêmeIls ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor Sylla ;S'il en demeure dix, je serai le dixième ;E...more

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Make thought a whirlwind.

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At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philos...more

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras, had not even noticed ...more

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as...more

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.