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The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.

If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.

An opulent priest is a contradiction.

There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.

These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst

other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

Because things are unpleasant, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust toward God.

What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret.

Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.

There was a coffin containing a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but no one was aware of it.

The lancer put on the satisfied smirk of a bandit praised for his honesty.

What those years said of themselves was that they were the most joyous of years, and anyone who failed to rejoice was immediately suspected of lamenting the victory of the working class or |what was equally sinful| giving way individualistically to inner sorrows.