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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind."

"You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself."
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
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"I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free."

"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."
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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."


"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."


"He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."


"A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:""The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my head that his daughter has made a bad marriage."The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty:"If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go without. If he has no doctor he will die.""And if he has one?""He will die," said the porter."


"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"
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