1 If the infinite had no person, person would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it would not exist.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 2 He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the infinite, and, through light, produce beauty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 3 He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 4 With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 5 Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been decided on.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 6 Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which we cannot comprehend.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW 7 The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the shades, like morsels of the infinite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 8 To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law.
9 Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 10 There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 11 To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on any other conditions than a denial of the infinite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 12 The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 13 They grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 14 The first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS 15 All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS