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Quotation from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.”
Les Misérables, Volume I, Book 2, Chapter XII, The Bishop Works, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood
The bishop's words to Valjean after giving him the silver candlesticks in front of the gendarmes.
Citation: "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Volume I, Book 2, Chapter XII, The Bishop Works, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood. (id les-miserables-q1)
Portrait: Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full, Étienne Carjat, Public domain.
