Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintesse…

Victor Hugo
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom. ✨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). Les misérables, Dutton Adult
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