... and most importantly, to feel his conscience. His heart was cold. There was no love and forgiveness, even its very fragments, in his heart. For him, once you fall from grace, you"ll fall forever. He believed the law so much that he only upheld the letters of the law and not its spirit that is more essential to living. However ... things that are similar. Both Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert had a miserable background; both were poor. Moreover, both longed to escape their past because of its misery. Jean used different alias to escape the hands of law because in his past he did somethi...

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