Les pierres du chantier ne sont en vrac qu’en apparence, s’il est, perdu dans le chantier, un homme, serait-il seul, qui pense cathédrale.
Pilote de Guerre (1942) (translated into English as Flight to Arras)
“It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.”
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
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