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Jean Valjean: How do you know I won't murder you in the night?
Bishop Bienvenu: [remains calm] Well, how do you know I won't murder you?
Jean Valjean: Nah...
Bishop Bienvenu: You have faith in me it seems. And I must have faith in you, musnt' I? Good night.
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Inspector Javert: You know what is going to happen, don't you? I will take you in the end!
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Jean Valjean: [to an old woman] You want to know who I am? I'm a convict! Yeah! I served my sentence. Now my punishment begins, it seems. Look, in prison they gave me a bed of wood. Now I have one of stone.
[laughs]
Jean Valjean: That's what they do when they set you free!
[laughs]
Jean Valjean: Well, call the police, why don't you? Have me turned off this as well!
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Fantine: [dying in bed] Oh, Monsieur Madeliene, you give everything!
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Jean Valjean: Is it true I don't have to go back to the galleys? You - you let me go free?
Bishop Bienvenu: Free? When is a man free? I wish someone would tell me.
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Jean Valjean: You never temper justice with mercy?
Inspector Javert: No, we might as well understand each other, Monsieur Madeliene. I administer the law - good, bad, or indifferent - it's no business of mine, but the law to the letter!
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Enjolras: [inciting the crowd] We'll tear up the streets of Paris! If they've got bayonets, we've got knives!
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Jean Valjean: And me! Me! Have you nothing for me?
Cosette: But you're my father. I mean I always think of you as my father. I know you're not really, but, don't you see, with Marius, it's different. It isn't just that lovely sense of companionship I have with you. It's - it's - well, it's the way every girl feels for the man who's going to marry her! You always knew I should have to leave you one day, didn't you?
Jean Valjean: No one forgets that!
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Enjolras: [seeing an apparent stranger in the midst of the broiling student rebeels] Who are you?
Inspector Javert: [absentmindedly as he looks in the crowd for Valjean] What'd ya say?
Enjolras: Spy? Police!
Inspector Javert: I might be a spy, and I'm certainly the police.
[the students rush Javert and subdue him]
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Jean Valjean: [looking around the empty hallway] Javert? You're here! I know it! Where are you? Where are you?
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Jean Valjean: I'm ready. All I ask is a few minutes to say good-bye.
Inspector Javert: The law allows you nothing.
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Jean Valjean: [holding the Bishop's candlesticks] Keep these always. Silver they say, but they're more than gold to me!
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Inspector Javert: Right or wrong, the law is the law and it must be obeyed to the letter.
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Bishop Bienvenu: Long ago, Jean, I learned that life is to give, not to take. Let me give. And in return, promise me that you will give, also.
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Eponine: If that thing on your face is a smile, take it off and get on with your work!
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Jean Valjean: Remember to love each other, always. There's scarcely anything else in life but that.
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Jean Valjean: Remember, as was once told me: life is to give, not to take.
Les Misérables Quotes
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