HAPPINESS in Classic Quotes

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1  The happiness of the evil-minded is black.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
2  Nothing is so charming as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
3  But without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very precious.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
4  It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in this distress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
5  Jean Valjean blossomed out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded Cosette.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
6  Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being themselves by nature joy and happiness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
7  The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it contained all the violence of voluptuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
8  Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who triumphs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
9  It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
10  It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he would find perhaps a little pity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
11  Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, where nothing is complete.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
12  The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at first, ended by opening his heart, and the cure and the warden finally came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his happiness to his child's future.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
13  On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of Saint-Benoit for a whole day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
14  Above and around these two delicate heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
15  About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible above the trees of the Champs Elysees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
16  It is remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine happiness and a real recreation for the scholars.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
17  It suffices for him to be there, with his radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the name of Paradise.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
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