The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he d... - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"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."

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"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."
"Be happy without picking flaws."
"Those who do not weep, do not see."
"where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?"
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