The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end swallows up the light. The human soul is a pupil which dilates in suffering and in the end swallows up God.
— Victor Hugo Modern

Les Miserables

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Les Misérables, Volume I, Book 7, Chapter 3

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1862

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Humorous

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