“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“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
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