When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to th…

Victor Hugo
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ✨ Victor Hugo (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated), p.13478, Delphi Classics
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