“This is the subject," said Pierre Villiers. "It gives me scope to amuse and tell the truth at the same time. A man pierces a hole in the wall of a boarding-house room, and watches what is going on in the next room.”

—  Henri Barbusse

The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI

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“I lifted my glass to my lips when suddenly I stopped and felt all my blood rush to my heart.
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