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The warm, beautiful sun let the beams of its light escape over all of France. One day in the middle of August, when the train coming from Paris to Marseille arrived at a station in the…
Contributor:
Daniel Hàgege
Places:
Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1909
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Man is not naturally a gregarious animal, though he has become so under the compulsion of circumstances and civilisation. You can see this in the history of his dwellings. In the beginning…
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Leonard Woolf
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1913
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For the first time they earned some money. They did not like their work; could they have liked it? But they did not dislike it a great deal either. They felt they were learning a lot from it. Year…
Contributor:
Georges Perec
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1965
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My father and mother were left alone and sat down for a moment; then my father said: “Well, shall we go up to bed?”
“As you wish, dear, though I don’t feel in the least like sleeping. I don’t know why…
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Marcel Proust
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1913
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The summer I was fifteen years old—just before my senior year in high school, for I had skipped grades—a new thing under the sun appeared in Brooklyn. Contact lenses. My parents made inquiries…
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1989