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"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."She tried to smile once more and expired."
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"A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened."
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"She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had loved him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death."
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"Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
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"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
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"I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal."
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"The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred."
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"Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them."
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"Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood."
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"Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Morality
"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."
Life
"The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition."
Society
"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."
Society
"There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry."
Creativity
"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."
Man
"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
Criticism
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
Money
"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
Intensity
"We defend with our lives the petty principles which divide us. The common principle, which is the establishment of the empire of man on earth, we never lift a finger to defend. We are frightened of any urge which would lift us out of the muck. We fight only for the status quo, our particular status quo. We battle with heads down and eyes closed."
Society
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