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."
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
"À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...]Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre."
"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."
"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."