I’m left with this understanding... what is true to the human condition: “We are beggars: this is true.”

Mercy, like the fluid and adaptable nature of water, flows to meet the needs of others with empathy, kindness, and compassion. 

I am not a beast! A haunting line by the hunchback himself in The Hunchback of Norte Dame, originally titled Notre-Dame-de-Paris, 1482.