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“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“Who can wonder that the world is known
So well by man, since himself is one?
The same composure in his form is shewed,
And mans the little image of the God.”
—Marcus Manilius (10 B.C.A.D. 30)
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