Perfection on a Chalkboard

Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps. To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

I find myself coming back to this quote time and time again.  I don't know why it speaks to me so completely, but somehow I can never get it out of my head.