“At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without”
― Fantine: Les Misérables #1
― Fantine: Les Misérables #1
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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