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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: of observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating,
he falls into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more
efficacious and more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor,
not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.
Among these men, to beat means to feign; one beats a malady;
ruse is their strength.
For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea
of darkness. The night is called la sorgue; man, l'orgue. Man
is a derivative of the night.
They have taken up the practice of considering society in the
light of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force,
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