Les Misérables (1862) (edit title/settings)

Dot From Kansas edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

• Edited a quotation: “Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the UniverseUniverse.”

Dot From Kansas edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

• Added a quotation: “Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the Universe”
• Added a quotation: “(About Javert) Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues which have one vice,--error.”

Cathy C edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Sunday, October 21, 2012.

• Added a quotation: “Because things are unpleasant, that is no reason for being unjust towards God.”

Cathy C edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Sunday, October 21, 2012.

• Edited a quotation: ““Here, I am going to write something to show you.”. . . <S>he S he wrote on a sheet of blank paper . . . “The cops are here.””This snippet describes Eponine’s excitement in Book Eight of “Marius” as she tries to impress Marius at the Gorbeau House.
• Edited a quotation: “<T>heT he poor little despairing thing could not help crying: “Oh my God! Oh God!”At that moment she suddenly felt that the weight of the bucket was gone. A hand, which seemed enormous to her, had just caught the handle, and was carrying it easily. . . .. . . The child was not afraid.”This passage occurs in Book Three of “Cosette,” after Mme. Thénardier orders Cosette to fetch a pail of water from the forest. Hugo uses especially melodramatic language and imagery to underscore the nightmarish quality of Cosette’s life with the Thénardiers and the almost divine appearance of Valjean.
• Added a quotation: “The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child”
• Added a quotation: “The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant that ever.”
• Added a quotation: “There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.”
• Added a quotation: “Old men need affection as they do sunshine.”
• Added a quotation: “The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.”
• Added a quotation: “Moreover, what is called much too harshly, in certain cases, the ingratitude of children, is not always as blameworthy a thing as is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature.”

Shelfari edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Monday, October 11, 2010.

• Edited a quotation: ““Here, I am going to write something to show you.”.you.”. . . <S>he<S>he wrote on a sheet of blank paper . . . “The cops are here.””This snippet describes Eponine’s excitement in Book Eight of “Marius” as she tries to impress Marius at the Gorbeau House.
• Edited a quotation: “<T>he<T>he poor little despairing thing could not help crying: “Oh my God! Oh God!”AtGod!”At that moment she suddenly felt that the weight of the bucket was gone. A hand, which seemed enormous to her, had just caught the handle, and was carrying it easily. . . .... . . The child was not afraid.”This passage occurs in Book Three of “Cosette,” after Mme. Thénardier orders Cosette to fetch a pail of water from the forest. Hugo uses especially melodramatic language and imagery to underscore the nightmarish quality of Cosette’s life with the Thénardiers and the almost divine appearance of Valjean.

Arra edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Sunday, June 6, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”Victor Hugo
• Added a quotation: “Books are cold but sure friends.”Victor Hugo

Rowland Bismark Fernando edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Wednesday, May 19, 2010.

• Added a quotation: ““Here, I am going to write something to show you.”. . . <S>he wrote on a sheet of blank paper . . . “The cops are here.””This snippet describes Eponine’s excitement in Book Eight of “Marius” as she tries to impress Marius at the Gorbeau House.
• Added a quotation: “<Valjean> had fallen back, the light from the candlesticks fell across him; his white face looked up toward heaven, he let Cosette and Marius cover his hands with kisses; he was dead.”This passage, from Book Nine of “Jean Valjean” brings Valjean’s personal journey full circle and compares him to his inspiration, Myriel, the bishop of Digne.
• Added a quotation: “<T>he poor little despairing thing could not help crying: “Oh my God! Oh God!”At that moment she suddenly felt that the weight of the bucket was gone. A hand, which seemed enormous to her, had just caught the handle, and was carrying it easily. . . .. . . The child was not afraid.”This passage occurs in Book Three of “Cosette,” after Mme. Thénardier orders Cosette to fetch a pail of water from the forest. Hugo uses especially melodramatic language and imagery to underscore the nightmarish quality of Cosette’s life with the Thénardiers and the almost divine appearance of Valjean.
• Added a quotation: “<Valjean> strained his eyes in the distance and called out . . . “Petit Gervais! . . .” His cries died away into the mist, without even awaking an echo. . . . <H>is knees suddenly bent under him, as if an invisible power suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his bad conscience; he fell exhausted . . . and cried out, “I’m such a miserable man!””Valjean’s encounter with Petit Gervais in Book Two of “Fantine” is the first interaction Valjean has after he leaves Myriel’s house in Digne.

Jennifer M edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Wednesday, May 12, 2010.

• reordered the memorable quotes.
• Edited a quotation: “"II declare I am confused!"confused!”Cosette

Cassie C edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Thursday, January 21, 2010.

• Edited a quotation: “Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarty,familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”

Cassie C edited the memorable quotes of Les Misérables Thursday, January 21, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “She worked to live; then, also to live, for the heart too has its hunger, she loved.”
• Added a quotation: “There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, this is the interior of the soul.”
• Added a quotation: “Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.”
• Added a quotation: “Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarty, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”
• Added a quotation: “Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.”
• Added a quotation: “The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.”
• Added a quotation: “The soul helps the body, and at certain moments uplifts it. It is the only bird which sustains its cage.”