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OCR: From 1883 to 188 Gogh was intermittently preoccu pied with star-studded skies. After reading Victor Hugo's Les Miserables Vincent expressed admiration for one of its secondary characters. the poor peasant bishop Monsignor Myriel, simple, childlike man who retires his garden late at night and meditates on the noctumal sky Alone under the immense fimarment, Myriel com pares "the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the evening air maved in the darkness the visible splendor of the constella ations and the invisible splendors f opening his soul to thoughts which fell from the Un- knawn Van Gagh averred that Monsignor Myriel WAS the equivalen of Cora or Millet for each fiercely believed in the redemntive pawer t unadomed nature 1889 novel noctunal firmament moved splendo constellations Mv ...