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Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
2 He examined this joy with a sort of wrath, and found it absurd.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
3 The same fury legitimate when directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
4 Everything which had happened to him seemed to him absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
5 The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious fellow.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
6 Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side at bottom.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
7 We have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of caterpillars.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER