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CHAPTER ONE Henri found himself looking at the sky again – a clear, black crystal dome overhead. It was difficult for the mind to conceive of hundreds of planes shattering that black crystalling silence! And suddenly, words began tumbling
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“CHAPTER ONE Henri found himself looking at the sky again – a clear, black crystal dome overhead. It was difficult for the mind to conceive of hundreds of planes shattering that black crystalling silence! And suddenly, words began tumbling through his head with a joyous sound – the offensive was halted … the German collapse had begun … at last he would be able to leave. He turned the corner of the quay. The streets would smell again of oil and orange blossoms, in the evening there would be light, people would sit and chat in outdoor cafés, and he would drink real coffee to the sound of guitars.”
― The Mandarins
― The Mandarins
“I really have had little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.”
― Muleum
― Muleum
“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
― Ghosts
― Ghosts
“O what a threadbare life we lead,
how pitifully poor the words of joy!
All has been seen, all will be seen again,
only the moment of recognition is sweet.”
― Poems of Osip Mandelstam
how pitifully poor the words of joy!
All has been seen, all will be seen again,
only the moment of recognition is sweet.”
― Poems of Osip Mandelstam
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