More quotes by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God."
"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
"There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God."
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
"Be happy without picking flaws."