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The breathless silence of the world (Joseph Conrad)

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Astern of the boat the repeated call of some bird, a cry discordant and feeble, skipped along over the smooth water and lost itself, before it could reach the other shore, in the breathless silence of the world.
Joseph Conrad (from his short story The Lagoon)

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