Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.
Jean Santeuil
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Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.
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