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Émile Zola, The Masterpiece Quotes: The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
         

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.


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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
         



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