Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Ger…

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates. ✨ Victor Hugo (1994). Les Miserables Volume Two, p.606, Wordsworth Editions
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