“I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.”

— Guy De Maupassant

"Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse"

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French writer 1850–1893

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