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Les Miserables

Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 8 Philosophy after Drinking

Word Count: 1462    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

marched straight to his goal, without once flinching in the line of his advancement and his interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by any means, who rendered

, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "Crotchets of that

s senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. At dessert, the senator

a bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I

one makes one's philosophy, so one lies on

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d'Argens, Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I h

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efas. Why? Because I shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the Moniteur, egad! but I may whisper it among friends. Inter pocula. To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. Wha

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ur everything without uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a philosophy of your own, and f

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1 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 1 M. Myriel 2 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 2 M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome3 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 3 A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop4 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 4 Works corresponding to Words5 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 5 Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long 6 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 6 Who guarded his House for him7 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 7 Cravatte8 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 8 Philosophy after Drinking9 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Brother as depicted by the Sister 10 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 10 The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light11 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 11 A Restriction12 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 12 The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome 13 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 13 What he believed 14 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 14 What he thought15 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 1 The Evening of a Day of Walking16 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 2 Prudence counselled to Wisdom17 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 3 The Heroism of Passive Obedience18 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 4 Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier19 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 5 Tranquillity20 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 6 Jean Valjean21 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 7 The Interior of Despair22 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 8 Billows and Shadows23 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 9 New Troubles24 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 10 The Man aroused25 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 11 What he does26 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 12 The Bishop works27 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 13 LITTLE GERVAIS28 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 1 The Year 181729 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 2 A Double Quartette30 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 3 Four and Four31 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 4 Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty32 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 5 At Bombardas33 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 6 A Chapter in which they adore Each Other34 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 7 The Wisdom of Tholomyes35 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 8 The Death of a Horse36 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 9 A Merry End to Mirth37 Part 1 Book 4 Chapter 1 One Mother meets Another Mother38 Part 1 Book 4 Chapter 2 First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures39 Part 1 Book 4 Chapter 3 The Lark40 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 1 The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets41 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 2 Madeleine42 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 3 Sums deposited with Laffitte43 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 4 M. Madeleine in Mourning44 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 5 Vague Flashes on the Horizon45 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 6 Father Fauchelevent46 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 7 Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris47 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 8 Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality48 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 10 Result of the Success49 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 11 Christus nos Liberavit50 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 13 The Solution of Some Questions connected with the Municipal Police51 Part 1 Book 6 Chapter 1 The Beginning of Repose52 Part 1 Book 6 Chapter 2 How Jean may become Champ53 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 1 Sister Simplice54 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 2 The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire55 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 3 A Tempest in a Skull56 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 4 Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep57 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 5 Hindrances58 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 6 Sister Simplice put to the Proof59 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 7 The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure60 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 8 An Entrance by Favor61 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 9 A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation62 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 10 The System of Denials63 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 11 Champmathieu more and more Astonished64 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 1 In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair65 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 2 Fantine Happy66 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 3 Javert Satisfied67 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 4 Authority reasserts its Rights68 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 5 A Suitable Tomb69 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 1 What is met with on the Way from Nivelles70 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 2 Hougomont71 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 3 The Eighteenth of June, 181572 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 4 A73 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 5 The Quid Obscurum of Battles74 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 7 Napoleon in a Good Humor75 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 8 The Emperor puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste76 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Unexpected77 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 10 The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean78 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 11 A Bad Guide to Napoleon79 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 12 The Guard80 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 13 The Catastrophe81 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 14 The Last Square82 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 15 Cambronne83 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 16 Quot Libras in Duce84 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 17 Is Waterloo to be considered Good85 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 18 A Recrudescence of Divine Right86 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 19 The Battle-Field at Night87 Part 2 Book 2 Chapter 1 Number 24,601 becomes Number 9,43088 Part 2 Book 2 Chapter 2 In which the reader will peruse Two Verses89 Part 2 Book 2 Chapter 3 The Ankle-Chain must have undergone a Certain90 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 1 The Water Question at Montfermeil91 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 2 Two Complete Portraits92 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 3 Men must have Wine, and Horses must have Water93 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 4 Entrance on the Scene of a Doll94 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 5 The Little One All Alone95 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 7 Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark96 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 8 The Unpleasantness of receiving97 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 9 Thenardier at his Manoeuvres98 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 10 He who seeks to better himself may render his Situation Worse99 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 11 Number 9,430 reappears, and Cosette wins it in the Lottery100 Part 2 Book 4 Chapter 1 Master Gorbeau