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"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
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"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
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