"The Man of the Crowd" by Edgar Allan Poe

Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul.
-La Bruyère.

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The picture used is by Harry Clarke, as an illustration for Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1923).

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