Les Misérables

Book · 8 characters · 800 quotes · 1862

Quotes from Les Misérables

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"Redemption is always possible for those who seek it with sincerity."
Jean Valjean
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"Life is a series of choices between right and wrong."
Jean Valjean
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Jean Valjean Love
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"Suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character."
Jean Valjean Perseverance
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"Beware of those in whom the desire to punish is strong."
Javert Wisdom
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"Even the smallest act of kindness is never wasted."
Jean Valjean Kindness
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"The poor do not ask for charity; they ask for justice."
Fantine Justice
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"Mercy is the only thing that stands between us and oblivion."
Jean Valjean
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"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
Eponine Hope
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"Let us try to leave this world a little better than we found it."
Jean Valjean Kindness
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"No one is poor who can look up to the stars."
Cosette Inspiration
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"When a man opens his heart to virtue, he opens it to joy."
Jean Valjean Happiness
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"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."
Jean Valjean Courage
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"I feel in myself a peace above all earthly dignities."
Fantine Peace
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"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."
Jean Valjean Strength
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"There is no greater thing than to lay down one's life for one's friend."
Jean Valjean Friendship
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"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."
Jean Valjean Patience
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"The supreme happiness is to be somebody to somebody."
Fantine Happiness
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"Freedom is the sovereign right of every individual."
Marius Pontmercy Freedom
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"Love is the only reality."
Cosette Love
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Fantine Love
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"I am the master of my fate."
Jean Valjean Freedom
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"Conscience is God."
Jean Valjean Wisdom
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"A mother's love never asks for recompense."
Cosette Family
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"The greatest joy of a mother is to protect her child."
Fantine Family
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"I have tasted all the bitterness of life, and I find a savor in it."
Jean Valjean Wisdom
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"One is not poor so long as one can still give."
Fantine Kindness
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"I am an accident of fate."
Jean Valjean Philosophy
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"The supreme judge of your actions must be yourself."
Jean Valjean Wisdom
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"True love is inexhaustible."
Fantine Love