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- 2021
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- 399
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- Comics & graphic novels, general, France, fiction, Early memories, Fiction, Social life and customs, Upper class, Villages, Manners and customs, Romance literature, French language, Readers, Classic Literature, Translations into Czech, French fiction, Translations into English, Fiction, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Dictionaries, English language, French
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say I'm going to sleep. And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was a…
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For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say I'm going to sleep. And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between Francois I and Charles V.