The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark th…

Victor Hugo
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ✨ Victor Hugo (1863). Les misérables, p.127
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