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"He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it."
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"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

"He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it."
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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

"But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head."

"What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground."

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