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“Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”
― Les Miserables
― Les Miserables
“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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