"To love beauty is to see light."
"The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood."
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Source: Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.3, Victor Hugo
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