“He felt more cheerful, revived by the journey, released from himself and his poor life, uplifted by thoughts of the infinite.” BeachBrugesUplifted Book:The Bells of Bruges Source: The Bells of Bruges
“Now Borluut was seeing it from close to. And to its very end, it seemed, from the way the line of the horizon merged into the infinite. It was bare. Not one ship. It ground out a dirge, in a glaucous tone, opaque, uniform. One sensed that all the colours were below, but faded. At the edge, the waves spilling onto the shore made a sound of washerwomen beating sheets of white linen, a whole supply of shrouds for future storms.” BeachBruges Book:The Bells of Bruges Source: The Bells of Bruges
