Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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.

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.