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This, let me remind you again, is a love story; you can see it by the imbecility, not a repulsive imbecility, the exalted imbecility of these proceedings, this station in torchlight, as if they had come there on purpose to have it out for the edification of concealed murderers.
This, let me remind you again, is a love story; you can see it by the imbecility, not a repulsive imbecility, the exalted imbecility of these proceedings, this station in torchlight, as if they had come there on purpose to have it out for the edification of concealed murderers.
Approximate author period: c. 1890 AD · industrial
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- Joseph Conrad
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- Approximate author period: c. 1890 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1857 to 1924; Wikidata Q82925, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82925 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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