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‘Teach those who are ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education. It’s responsible for the darkness it produces. In any benighted soul – that’s where sin will be committed. It’s not he who commits the sin that’s to blame but he who causes the darkness to prevail.’
He told him the best truths, which are the simplest ones.
Human thought knows no boundary. At its peril it analyses and explores its own bedazzlement.
What a fateful moment it is when society distances itself and irredeemably casts adrift a thinking being!
With his eyes turned heavenward, with a kind of yearning towards all the mysteries of infinity, he listened to those sad voices singing at the edge of death’s dark abyss.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that you are loved, loved for yourself, better still, loved despite yourself.
There are some touching illusions that may perhaps be sublime realities.
Tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a tragedy for a man to leave behind him darkness in his own image.
This is the explanation of war, waged by humanity against humanity despite humanity.
This man and this woman were guile wedded to rage, a hideous and terrible coupling.
People don’t know what they should know, and they know what they shouldn’t.
Enjolras was a leader, Combeferre was a guide. You would have wanted to fight with one and march with the other.
And between the two types of brightness he was inclined to favour illumination over conflagration.
‘You don’t believe in anything.’ ‘I believe in you.’
‘There are people who observe the rules of honour the way you observe the stars, from a great distance.’
