Guy de Maupassant :
I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.
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Books - Reading
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Dreams
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Immortality
Gift it
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