“He sees only night, and hears only silence.”
Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.
Imagination, IV; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. ___? (Silence).
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Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.
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