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Les Miserables

CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
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He was seized with a fit of trembling.

He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a tear gathered slowly.

When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock.
After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- "The infinite is.

He is there.

If the infinite had no person, person would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it would not exist.


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