Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
Georges DuhamelAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: french
- Born: June 30, 1884
- Died: April 13, 1966
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