“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

“exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.”

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”

“Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.”

“What is fright by night is curiosity by day.”

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

“Woe, alas, to the one who shall have loved bodies, forms, appearances only. Death will take everything from him. Try to love souls, you shall find them again”