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12 Jan 2022
The reader will permit us one other little digression, utterly foreign to this book.
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One felt that one had before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle.
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Jun 15
Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like a Russian soldier.
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Jun 13
Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, and recognized him.
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Jun 10
All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite.
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If these two infinities are intelligent, each of them has a will principle, and there is an I in the upper infinity as there is an I in the lower infinity. The I below is the soul; the I on high is God.
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She would have softened a heart of granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened.
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Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other.
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When she entered the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise. Jean Valjean blossomed out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded Cosette.
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He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:—
“Let me sleep here.”
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Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the whole human race.
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Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.
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May 31
What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life of the peoples.
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This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.
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