Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very…

Guy de Maupassant
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Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror. ✨ Guy de Maupassant, Arnold Kellett (1976). The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror, Pan
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