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Quotes from Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
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1  Not a man was missing in that suicide.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD
2  But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an irreligious act.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
3  There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE ...
4  The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
5  If suicide formed part of what he had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not succeeded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
6  Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two holds, suicide or crime.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
7  Suicides like that which is on the brink of accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is murder.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
8  The story had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the Moniteur, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of mental aberration and a suicide.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH ...
9  There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the suicide.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER