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“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!
— Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables (1862), page 746, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Archived from the original on March 11,
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