We have suffered much, we have worked much, we have made much effort to redeem, in the eyes of God, what was unconventional in our happiness by what was holy in our love.
ATTRIBUTION:
Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Letter to his mistress, Juliette Drouet (May 20, 1839), Victor Hugo: Oeuvres complètes, vol. 5, p. 1252-53, ed. Jean Massin, Paris (1967).
