No Truer Name

Today I finished reading Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. 

Hugo said so much that I find myself nearly speechless. The endeavor of reading such a tale was worth every minute and tear.

Tragic but True, I share some of the lines that gripped me most.

"The mysterious Being in whom are summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive trees quivered in the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to him dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all studded with stars."

"The soul aids its body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage."

"God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures opaque. To Love is to render that being transparent."

"Civil War - what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war among brothers? ... Then war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does one form of man despise another?"

"Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it."

"The pupil dilates in the dark; and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there."

And just to prove that there is indeed nothing new under the sun, Macklemore merely channeled Hugo:

"These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are all the rage, and young women of my old day dress like the old women of my childhood." Cosette wore Marius' Grandma's clothes and looked incredible.