I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

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.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.