A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows …

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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. ✨ Victor Hugo (1887). Notre-Dame. With Illus. by Hugo, Bayard, Brion, Johannot, and Others
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