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Quotation from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.”

Victor Hugo (spoken by Bishop Myriel)

Les Misérables, Volume I, Book 1, Chapter IV, Works Corresponding to Words, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood

Portrait of Victor Hugo

One of the bishop's sayings on teaching the ignorant and society's responsibility for the darkness it produces.

Citation: "The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow." — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Volume I, Book 1, Chapter IV, Works Corresponding to Words, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood. (id les-miserables-q2)

Portrait: Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full, Étienne Carjat, Public domain.

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