La Vie est un roman
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5 years ago, I thought I'd marry
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on the day I opened this house.
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Men's foIIy dictated otherwise.
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How many of those who worked
on my project are stiII aIive?

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How many died atrociousIy?
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First, the architect,
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Patinier, kiIIed in the battIe
of CharIeroi.

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Laferriére, kiIIed on the Somme.
Marquet, Grumbert...

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Trévoux, kiIIed in '17 at SaIonika.
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Empires have faIIen, fortunes,
incIuding mine, dwindIed.

:19:54
The woman I was to marry
wed another.

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I've traveIed... a Iot.
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I aImost dropped the project
100 times.

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It stiII isn't finished.
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But it is urgent to consecrate
this tempIe of happiness.

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A new kind of happiness!
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A new happiness?
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Then it's a ceIebration.
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More Iike an... experiment.
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Perhaps we shouId say, a journey.
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AIthough we won't Ieave here.
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This is going to be fun.
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If the paIace isn't finished,
why not postpone things?

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To when the paint is dry?
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I couId wait no Ionger.
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You were wounded in the war?
So was I.


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