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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth...
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 4, bk. 7, ch. 1 (1862).
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''Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me
So that I may leave this place and disappear.''
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. "Veni Vidi Vixi," Les Contemplations (1856).
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