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Quotes from Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
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1 His eye never quitted the old man.
2 When the heart is dry, the eye is dry.
3 An eye full of suspicion and conjecture.
4 The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man.
5 He fixed a haggard eye on the candlesticks.
6 The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire beneath brushwood.
7 His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked by a watering in one eye.
8 As far as the eye could see there was not a person on the plain or on the path.
9 He had gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the thoughtful visage of a philosopher.
10 All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow.
11 Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly.
12 He examined without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature.
13 Cuvier, with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons flatter Moses.
14 As for him, he bore upon his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still staring at him.
15 But in proportion as his youth disappeared, gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly.
16 The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more mysterious, and more infinite.
17 He recoiled three paces, then halted, without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him.
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