“Whenever I go to the dock and look at the horizon, I am on the other side. If I see a boat on the ocean, it pulls me like a cord… like a belt pulling my sides, and I don’t know where I am, I cannot think of anything else…”

— Marcel Pagnol

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novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France 1895–1974

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