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Life seemed full of promise to him, men seemed good and just; in his thoughts he no longer reproached anyone with any wrong; he saw no reason now why he should not live to a very old age, while this child loved him. He looked forward to a whole future illuminated by Cosette as if with charmed light.

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an English general cried out to them, “Brave Frenchman, surrender!”
Cambronne answered, “Merde!”

I won’t hear what anyone says, the Waterloo section is incredible.

- just as he had been on the day he entered Digne, full of hatred, and concealing in his soul that hideous hoard of frightful thoughts he had spent nineteen years harvesting on the prison floor.
He said to himself, with a shudder, “Great God! Will I return to that?”

And whatever he did, he always fell back on this paradox at the core of his thought. To remain in paradise and become a demon! To re-enter hell and become an angel!

For dowry, she had gold and pearls; but the gold was on her head and the pearls in her mouth.

“If we took a little time, the nettle would be useful; we neglect it, and it becomes harmful.
Then we kill it”

…in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. Give a human face to this wolf’s son and you will have Javert.

Petit Gervais chapter so devastating, too bad we never know what happened to JVJ ;)