The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, ju... - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Love is the only future God offers."

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

"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."

"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced."