My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
("Les Miserables")
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must be looked for is the unforeseen.
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