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"Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise."
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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"

"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."

"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."

"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"

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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."

"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."

"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."

"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"
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