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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

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.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

We are for religion against the religions.

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!

I did see LES MIZ and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love CHICAGO, too.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.

If no one loved, the sun would go out.

The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.

Make thought a whirlwind.

. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

He loved books

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved

There are men who dig for gold

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens

My heart is lost

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.