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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER III
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Are you, too, a human being?
How strange and how beautiful it is--a human being!" That which I am writing happened long ago, and those who are sleeping now in the sleep of grey life and who die without awakening--those will not believe me: in those days there was no such thing as time.

The sun was rising and setting, and the hand was moving around the dial--but time did not exist.

And many other great and wonderful things happened in those days....

And those who are sleeping now the sleep of this grey life and who die without awakening, will not believe me.
"I must go," said I.
"Wait, I will give you something to eat.

You haven't eaten anything to-day.


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