“ Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. ”
Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three (1874). copy citation
| Author | Victor Hugo |
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| Source | Ninety-Three |
| Topic | dazzle mind |
| Date | 1874 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ninety-three |
Context
“Optical illusions, inexplicable shadows, terrors of the hour or place, throw men into a sort of fear, half religious, half brutal, which in ordinary times engenders superstition, and in periods of violence, brutality. Hallucinations hold the torch which lights the path of murder. There is a touch of madness in the brigand. Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition.
Certain rocks, certain ravines, certain copses, certain wild openings through the trees at evening, impel man to mad and awful deeds.”
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