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1  To love beauty is to see the light.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
2  I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ...
3  She is Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
4  Her amazed and uneasy air added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
5  An hour after a storm, it can hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
6  The quincunxes and flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
7  But what he was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her soul.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
8  It is through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, the socially beautiful.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
9  The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
10  People supped well, and had at table a beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only moderately concealed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
11  The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her loins.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
12  His beauty, at that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
13  As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
14  If people did not love each other, I really do not see what use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, the birds, and the pretty maidens.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
15  May you be happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain that all this is right.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
16  The present sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS
17  The Saturnalia, that grimace of antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a divine semi-nudity, having at the present day lost her shape under the soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack-pudding.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
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