Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Life is a flower of which love is honey.
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
France is great because she is France.
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables