“Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas.”

—  Henri Barbusse

Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts
Context: She goes into her room and disappears. Before I went to the war we slept in the same bed. We used to lie down side by side, so as to be annihilated in unconsciousness, or to go and dream somewhere else. Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas. For man and wife — to sleep, to die.) But since I came back we separate ourselves with a wall.

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French novelist 1873–1935

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