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The idea came to him, not for the first time, that most of the things which people buy in the belief that they are luxuries are really poor substitutes for luxury.

— Robert Aickman The Wine-Dark Sea (1988)

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Source: p.27 (Story was first published in 1988. Page numbers are per the Mandarin paperback "The Wine-Dark Sea" (short stories) 1990 Edition.)
Work: The Wine-Dark Sea, 1988
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