"To love beauty is to see light."
"Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die."
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Source: Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.135
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