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Quotation from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
“There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul.”
Les Misérables, Volume I, Book 7, Chapter III, A Tempest in a Skull, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood
Hugo's prelude to Valjean's night-long struggle over whether to let Champmathieu be condemned in his place.
Citation: "There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul." — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Volume I, Book 7, Chapter III, A Tempest in a Skull, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood. (id les-miserables-q3)
Portrait: Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full, Étienne Carjat, Public domain.
