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1  Sacrifice wrongly directed is still sacrifice.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
2  Sacrifice wrongly directed is still sacrifice.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
3  Its object, salvation; its means thereto, sacrifice.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
4  Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
5  To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
6  Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a sacrifice on my side.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
7  The man of probity sacrifices himself, and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND ...
8  When one supports one's relatives by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
9  Oftener than is the case with other races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
10  I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
11  The bravery exhibited there was almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity which began by the sacrifice of self.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
12  The Emperor had been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
13  Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice themselves.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
14  And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
15  Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...