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Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels.

Les Miserables

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Les Miserable, 1862

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Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

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Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
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There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Les Miserable, 1862

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Les Miserables

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