As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)