In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac. β¨ Les misérables.
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- If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. β¨ Les Misérables. Book by Victor Hugo. Chapter IV: W β¦ βΆ
- Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical? β¨ Victor Hugo (1980). Les misΓ©rables, Viking Pr
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- The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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