To love another person is to see the face of God.

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Also from Les Misérables, this line closes the stage adaptation of the novel and has become its emotional signature. In Hugo's narrative it belongs to Valjean, a former convict whose transformation begins with an act of unearned mercy.

The claim is theological but the mechanism is practical. Loving someone specific — with their limitations fully visible — is presented as the point where an abstract idea of the divine becomes concrete. Hugo consistently places redemption in human relationships rather than in doctrine.