More quotes by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Sin is a gravitation."
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
"Be happy without picking flaws."
"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God."
"The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."