gontran de poncins in kabloona:
"together we spent hours like this, reading in the great book of silence. he learnt its lessons in childhood; i have come from afar to spell them out with extreme difficulty. they have taught me, above all, to discard things; haste, worry, rebelliousness, selfishness. it has taken me a year to learn these lessons and i see suddenly that my year in the north has not been, as i thought it, a year of conquest of the elements, but of conquest of myself....."
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