Quote by Victor Hugo

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken th

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This quote suggests that the shock of being sentenced to something terrible or unjust has shattered the barrier that typically separates humans from the unknown aspects of life. It implies that this experience disrupts our understanding of the world and forces us to confront the mysterious and unexplainable aspects that lie beyond our normal comprehension.

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