Isolation Quote by Georges Rodenbach

“Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hurts inflicted by the world.” quote by Georges Rodenbach — Download Open image

““Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hurts inflicted by the world.””

Georges Rodenbach

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