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Quotes from Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
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1 There were no stars in the sky.
2 There were no stars in the sky even yet.
3 We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars.
4 Not more than two or three stars were visible in the sky.
5 In the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars.
6 I went into the fields, intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars.
7 They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up again and shone like stars.
8 Legends, chimeras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, are provided for them to swallow.
9 Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and shortened in a singular manner through the darkness.
10 With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks.
11 Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars.
12 He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
13 At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky.
14 But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars were the lanterns of a carriage.
15 Upon this board was painted something which resembled a man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably represented a battle.
16 Behind him and around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory.
17 Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all studded with stars.
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