Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked…

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere. ✨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). Les misérables, Dutton Adult
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. ✨ Victor Hugo (2012). Les Misérables, p.86, Courier Corporation
Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears. ✨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). Les misérabl … ▶
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. ✨ Victor Hugo (1886). William Shakespeare

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere. ✨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). Les misérables, Dutton Adult

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