1 This human creature had entered life in just this way.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 2 It has been said, error is human; I say, error is love.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 3 From its most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 4 He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of human society rest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 5 It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 6 When he felt himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed searchingly about him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 7 There are still human beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the paradox merrily.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE 8 I have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 9 Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS 10 Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 11 Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs from our own.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 12 In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent of Christ.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 13 On scrutinizing this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch was the Bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 14 And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and which it shows to those whom it strikes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 15 Two or three times he ran across the plain towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood or rocks nearly on a level with the earth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 16 He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of work and an excess of punishment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 17 Souls which have fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon their heads.
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