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1  This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
2  Life and the social order have said their last word for her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
3  All social problems erect their interrogation point around this chopping-knife.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO
5  The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling their condemned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
6  By the side of this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social symptom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
7  The almost violent serenity of the funereal moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
8  Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
9  Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
10  It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
11  Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN ...
12  When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they escape because of their smallness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
13  There is a throng of institutions in the old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the above.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
14  This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
15  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 Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
16  The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
17  All day long, he buried himself in social questions, salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those enormous beings.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
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