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Georges Simenon

“That feeling about trains, for instance. Of course he had long outgrown the boyish glamour of the steam-engine. Yet there was something that had an appeal for him in trains, especially in night-trains, which always put queer, vaguely improper notions in his head - though he would have been hard put to it to define them. Also he had an impression that those who leave by night-trains leave forever - an impression heightened the previous night by his glimpse of those Italians piled into their carriage like emigrants”

Georges Simenon, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
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