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The devil, who is clever, took to hating man; man, who is more clever, took to loving woman. In this way he has done himself more good than the devil has done him harm. This trick was discovered at the time of the earthly paradise.

One “misery” I don’t think I would have been able to handle was if Marius and M. Gillenormand stayed estranged. M. Gillenormand softening his aristocratic attitudes and just becoming a sweet little grandpa was exactly what I was needing.

Javert had never seen the unknown except below. The irregular, the unexpected, the disorderly opening of chaos, the possible slipping into an abyss; all of that belonged to inferior regions, to the rebellious, the wicked, the miserable. Now Javert was thrown over backward, and he was startled by this monstrous apparition: a gulf above him.

I desperately need to know why Victor Hugo was so passionate and knowledgeable about the Parisian sewer system

There are interior collapses. The penetration of a torturing certainty within a man does not occur without breaking up and pulverizing certain deep elements that are sometimes the man himself. Grief, when it reaches this level, is a panic of all the forces of consciousness. These are fatal crises.

She let her head fall back on Marius’s knees and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless, but just when Marius supposed her forever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes, revealing the somber depths of death and said to him with an accent whose sweetness seemed to come from another world,“And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you”

I would follow Enjolras to the end

I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I sense the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant whose credit is low gives a ball. We mustn’t judge the gods by appearances. Beneath the gliding of the sky I catch a glimpse of a poor universe. Creation is bankrupt. That’s why I am a malcontent.