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> [“No, what numbed these fields, peopled with bad dreams was not the oppressive grip of a plague but rather an ailing retreat, a sort of sad widowhood. Man had started to subdue these vacant expanses, then had grown weary of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/no-what-numbed-these-fields-peopled-with-bad-dreams-was-not-the/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

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