When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of a…

Victor Hugo
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. ✨ Victor Hugo (1948). Notre-Dame de Paris
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