October 2011
5 posts
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For those who are expecting more quotes from this blog, I’m sorry to disappoint you with the lack of posts. I will update soon.
Meanwhile, keep reading! :))
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“They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each...”
– Les Miserables
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“Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered in its...”
– Les Miserables
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“At that particular moment when Cosette unconsciously looked with this glance...”
– Les Miserables
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“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come...”
– Les Miserables
September 2011
51 posts
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“Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two...”
– Les Miserables
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“Indeed, what is the use of having a pretty face and a delightful dress if you do...”
– Les Miserables
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“In less than a month little Cosette was, in that Thebaid of the Rue de Babylone,...”
– Les Miserables
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“The consciousness of her beauty came to her entire, in a moment, like broad...”
– Les Miserables
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“To form the mind of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one...”
– Les Miserables
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“The neighbors did not gossip about it, for the reason that there was no...”
– Les Miserables
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“Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit...”
– Les Miserables
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“A social deformity perhaps still more hideous than the evil rich man: the evil...”
– Les Miserables
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“And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?”
– Les Miserables
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“For five years Marius had lived in poverty, in privation, in distress even, hut...”
– Les Miserables
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“She looked upon me; was not that infinite?”
– Marius Pontmercy, Les Miserables
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“Hunger comes with love. To know that her name was Ursula had been much; it was...”
– Les Miserables
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“Beautiful with a beauty which combined all of a woman with all of the angel, a...”
– Les Miserables
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“One glance had done all that. When the mine is loaded, and the match is ready,...”
– Les Miserables
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“There was something of attack in this march and certainly a desire of conquest....”
– Les Miserables
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“I have just met Marius’ new hat and coat, with Marius inside. Probably he was...”
– Courfeyrac, Les Miserables
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“The woman whom he now saw was a noble, beautiful creature, with all the most...”
– Les Miserables
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“She had not only grown; she had become idealized. As three April days are enough...”
– Les Miserables
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“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who...”
– Les Miserables
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“The church! That is it. These rendezvous which are spiced a bit of mass are the...”
– Les Miserables
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“Certainly I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know...”
– Monsieur Mabeuf, Les Miserables
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“Feeling that he was not loved at all, he had no love. Nothing more natural, said...”
– Les Miserables
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“And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix...”
– Les Miserables
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“He divided his thoughts between the innocent things he was doing, and the grand...”
– Les Miserables
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“The greatest families are forced to it.”
– M. Gillenormand, Les Miserables
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“I do not know whether it is that I no longer understand French, or you no longer...”
– George Pontmercy, Les Miserables
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“These households of an old man and an old maid are not rare, and always have the...”
– Les Miserables
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“She was immodestly modest. She had one frightful reminiscence in her life: one...”
– Les Miserables
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“[M. Gillenormand] was one of those men who have become curiosities, simply...”
– Les Miserables
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“Nothing scans so carefully as a downcast eye.”
– Les Miserables
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“Ah! My God! How did you come here, Father Madeleine? How did you get in, o Lord?...”
– Fauchelevent, Les Miserables
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“All extreme situations have their flashes which sometimes make us blind,...”
– Les Miserables
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“Truly, at that instant, if Jean Valjean had a kingdom, he would have given it...”
– Les Miserables
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“Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he might be said to carry two knapsacks;...”
– Les Miserables
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“Love came, and he again grew strong.”
– Les Miserables
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“He felt inward yearnings, like a mother, and knew not what they were; for it is...”
– Les Miserables
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“She lied. Two lies in succession, one upon another, without hesitation, quickly,...”
– Les Miserables
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“The shocks of destiny have this peculiarity; however subdued or disciplined our...”
– Les Miserables
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“We are sorry not to be able to disguise the fact that, on this single sentence...”
– Les Miserables
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“She did not start with surprise or joy; she was joy itself.”
– Les Miserables
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“She was sleeping. Her pallor had become whiteness, and her cheeks were glowing....”
– Les Miserables
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“God will inspire us.”
– Jean Valjean, Les Miserables
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“You must be very sharp to tell me where I was born. Idon’t know myself....”
– Father Champmathieu, Les Miserables
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“All those hours especially when we have the sorest need of grasping the sharp...”
– Les Miserables
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“Mournful destiny! He could only enter into sanctity in the eyes of God, by...”
– Les Miserables