Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault.

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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

The just man frowns, but never sneers. We understand anger, not malice.

It is chiefly at the moment when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another wolf. Let us stick to nature, then.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.

We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.