“I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.”

—  Georges Bernanos , book Monsieur Ouine

The dying Monsieur Ouine, p. 243
Monsieur Ouine, 1943

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