1 Therein lay his connection with humanity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 2 Nature and humanity both appeal to you at the same time there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS 3 Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 4 The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of humanity.
5 Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; out of the people he chose the woman.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY 6 All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 7 He gazes so much on humanity that he perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he beholds God.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 8 He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.
9 In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and of destiny.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW 10 He goes to the spectacles which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the creation amid which he beams.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 11 Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become favorable to it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 12 All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 13 These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that charming April which is called twenty years.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 14 He doubts not that your honorable person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 15 The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible likeness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 16 Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 17 Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all studded with stars.
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