Les Misérables Quotes
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. –I shall feel it.”
She dropped her head again on Marius’ knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:–
“And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (ack: Goodreads-quotes/image-lisa abramson-pinterest))
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