On this seat - where she came to me for the first time, which was once so important to us that it seemed as if the background of things all about us had been created by us - we sit down to-day, after we have vainly sought in nature the traces of our transit. (Henri Barbusse)

On this seat - where she came to me for the first time, which was once so important to us that it seemed as if the background of things all about us had been created by us - we sit down to-day, after we have vainly sought in nature the traces of our transit.

Henri Barbusse

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