"To love beauty is to see light."
"It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!"
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Source: Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.1231, Modern Library
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