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“L'istinto di Cosette cercava un padre, come quello di Valjean cercava un figlio, e incontrarsi, per essi, significò trovarsi; nel momento misterioso in cui le loro mani s'incontrarono, si saldarono. Quando quelle due anime si scorsero, riconobbero di essere ciascuna quel che abbisognava all'altra e s'abbracciarono strettamente.”

Italiano Les Misérables Victor Hugo Cosette I Miserabili

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“She appeared to him more beautiful than he had ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and Dante kneel. [...]”

Les Misérables Victor Hugo Cosette

Author:Victor Hugo, Les Misérables.

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”

People Way Love Has Beens Two Stories Romantic Dare Love Story Fallen Glances Hopeless Romantic Les Mis Cosette

Book:Les Miserables Volume Two

Source: Les Miserables Volume Two

“At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.”

Has Beens Moments Eye Night Passion Streets Pure Capable Picks Dresses Silent His Eyes Breasts That Moment Ecstasy Visiting Ankles Omnipotence Swelling Marius Moments Of Love Cosette

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.”

Lost Loses Sorrow One Day Details Driven Obliged Request Complicity Cosette

Book:The Works of Victor Hugo

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”

Stills Suffering Dies Love Is Live By Cosette

Book:Saint Denis

Source: Saint Denis

“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.”

Men Should Asks Strange Pretension Marius Cosette

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”

Speak Stars Dark Millions Saws Sky Regard League Bows Gazing Stars In The Sky Marius Cosette

Book:Les Miserables Volume Two

Source: Les Miserables Volume Two

“Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.”

Grief Remains Temperament Plunge Marius Cosette

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.”

“Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!”

Giving Heart Children Destiny Support Struggle Balance Truth Is Giving Up Losing Thanks Vulnerable Protected Sublime Loving Life Verge Unfathomable Cosette Jean Valjean Thanks To Him

Author:Victor Hugo