There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the d…

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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ✨ Joseph Conrad (1905). Lord Jim, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company
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