Sublime

Yet he loved people: it seems that he lived his whole life with an absolute faith in people, though no one ever thought of him as simple or naïve. There was something in him that said, and made you believe (and this was so throughout his life), that he did not wish to sit in judgement on others and would never take it upon himself to censure anyone

“And now, I am sorry, I must kill most of you.”

Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths,

Mme. Vauquer alone can breathe that tainted air without being disheartened by it.

his guardians, who were extremely old-fashioned people and did not realize that we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

Inútil sermos santos, apóstolos perfeitos dos direitos do homem e da ética republicana, nada nos garantiria o sucesso da vida afetiva.