“Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.”

—  André Malraux

Part II, Chapter III
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)

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