Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obsc…

Victor Hugo
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul. ✨ Victor Hugo (1980). Les misérables, Viking Pr
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