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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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"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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"And when suddenlythe god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry,uttered the words: 'He has turned round' "she comprehended nothing and said softly: 'Who?"
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
Beginning
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
Beginning
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Beauty
"Evil is whatever distracts."
Evil
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."
Life
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
Independence
"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."
Bible
"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
Truth
"Writers speak stench."
Writing
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
Evil
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