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I imagined that all that belonged to me. There was my folly. Those Thenardiers were wicked. We must forgive them. Cosette, the time has come to tell of your mother. Her name was Fantine. Remember that name: Fantine. Fall on your knees whenever you pronounce it. She suffered much. And loved you much. Her measure of unhappiness was as full as yours of happiness. Such are the distributions of God. He is on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of his great stars. So I am going away, my children. Love each other dearly always. 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God knows better than we do what we need. That you are happy, that Monsieur Pontmercy has Cosette, that youth espouses morning, that there are about you, my children, lilacs and nightingales, that your life is a beautiful lawn in the sunshine, that all the enchantments of heaven fill your souls, and now, that I who am good for nothing, that I die; surely all this is well. 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Although his fate was very strange, He lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. 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Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hope", "slug": "hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope" }, { "name": "dreams and aspirations", "slug": "dreams-and-aspirations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_VII_-_Argot", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:49" }, { "id": "ae7cab75-34d7-4d64-9418-ead648e985ea", "slug": "great-perils-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/great-perils-have", "text": "Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 927, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "solidarity", "slug": "solidarity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/solidarity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_XII_-_Corinth", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:49" }, { "id": "abe0aab2-e05f-4b58-8cd8-2238660e344d", "slug": "thoughtful-persons-seldom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/thoughtful-persons-seldom", "text": "Thoughtful persons seldom speak of happiness or unhappiness. In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. 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He was poor, but his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached the last sou but never the last burst of laughter. 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He who has not seen the things of this world, and the hearts of men by this double light, has seen nothing, and know nothing of the truth.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 727, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_II_-_Eponine", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:49" }, { "id": "0121eb25-375c-46f2-8e6a-31e78de114a3", "slug": "what-can-be-done", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/what-can-be-done", "text": "What can be done in a sepulcher, they agonised, and what can be done in a hell, they sang. 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He founded philosophy.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "philosophy", "slug": "philosophy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/philosophy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Chapter_VIII_-_Faith_-_Law", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:48" }, { "id": "3ea86b77-e74b-439d-8726-daae2409ffca", "slug": "it-is-a-mistake", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/it-is-a-mistake", "text": "It is a mistake to imagine that man can exhaust his destiny, or can reach the bottom of anything whatever. Alas! what are all these destinies thus driven pell-mell? whither go they? why are they so? He who knows that, sees all the shadow. He is alone. 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"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:47" }, { "id": "62d26b0b-e735-4d77-9a0e-b67912c199e3", "slug": "mothers-arms-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/mothers-arms-are", "text": "Mothers' arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "mother", "slug": "mother", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mother" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_IV_-_To_Entrust_is_Sometimes_to_Abandon", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:47" }, { "id": "554ecdf7-2a30-4d11-83b3-30a168456f4b", "slug": "be-it-true", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/be-it-true", "text": "Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "gossip", "slug": "gossip", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gossip" }, { "name": "reputation", "slug": "reputation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reputation" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_I_-_An_Upright_Man", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:47" }, { "id": "436e38c4-b64b-4ceb-b28f-7c707370f26d", "slug": "but-who-ever", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/but-who-ever", "text": "But who ever does attain to his ideal?", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 19, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "dreams and aspirations", "slug": "dreams-and-aspirations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_I_-_An_Upright_Man", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:47" }, { "id": "3aafa909-dd3b-4ea5-84fe-06dfefdaeb38", "slug": "i-am-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/i-am-not", "text": "I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 24, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "soul", "slug": "soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soul" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_I_-_An_Upright_Man", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:47" }, { "id": "30b166e7-6422-437e-bb38-18fd6826d2a2", "slug": "how-frightened-hypocrisy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/how-frightened-hypocrisy", "text": "How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 13, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hypocrisy", "slug": "hypocrisy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_I_-_An_Upright_Man", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": 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Thénardier! Maintenant me reconnaissez-vous?", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "identity", "slug": "identity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Chapter_XX_-_The_Ambuscade", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:06" }, { "id": "2b6ef90d-c3b8-4447-b0b8-26801603c862", "slug": "you-who-suffer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/you-who-suffer", "text": "You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love is to live by it. Love! A dark and starry transfiguration is mingled with that torment. There is ecstacy in the agony.", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_V_-_An_End_Unlike_the_Beginning", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:06" }, { "id": "21819853-e8de-4711-8484-feeb1d205bfd", "slug": "let-us-never", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/let-us-never", "text": "\"Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.\"", "language": "en", "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "morality", "slug": "morality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Book_I_-_An_Upright_Man", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:04" } ] }