“The eye is lost in all directions among the desolation where the multitude of men and women are hiding, as always and as everywhere.”

Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light
Context: The eye is lost in all directions among the desolation where the multitude of men and women are hiding, as always and as everywhere.
That is what is. Who will say, "That is what must be!"
I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.

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French novelist 1873–1935

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