1 He was indulgent towards God's creation.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 2 Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars.
3 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 (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 4 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 (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 5 Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME... 6 From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy creation, logic of darkness.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 7 One could comprehend that God might be jealous of this had not God the Father of all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 8 They send each other the song of the birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 9 In the first place, the direct creation of words.
10 All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 11 This is the will of that mysterious creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 12 It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even when the rest of creation is under an umbrella.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 13 In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 14 What had been the study and desire of the wisest men since the creation of the world was now within my grasp.
15 It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.