Victor Hugo

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is read more

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.