“Through centuries of centuries, fire and water face each other; the fire, upright, buoyant and leaping; the water flat, creeping, gliding, widening its lines and its surface. When they touch, is it the water which hisses and roars, or is it the fire?”

— Henri Barbusse

Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi

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French novelist 1873–1935

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