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Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.
Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.
Approximate author period: c. 1871 AD · industrial
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- Guy de Maupassant
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- Approximate author period: c. 1871 AD · industrial
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