Morgan Giesbrecht’s Reviews > Les Misérables > Status Update

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake—let us rather say, loved in spite of one’s self.”

“He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.“

That last phrase 🥺

“‘The beautiful is as useful as the useful… More so, perhaps.’”