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Victor Hugo: Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

       --Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Les Misérables (1862), Book V, ch 13; translated by Charles Wilbour

La grande douleur est un rayon divin et terrible qui transfigure les misérables.

05 May 2005 in French, On the Death of a Child, On the Death of a Friend, On the Death of a Parent, On the Death of a Sibling, On the Death of a Spouse or Lover, On the Death of Someone Admired, On the Loss of a Beloved Place, On the Missing, On Troubles |

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