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...and €5,740 per sq m for houses, according to Notaires de France....
...I’m very competitive. I’m hyperfocused. I would like to be respected by my peers. Do you believe in an afterlife?I think I do. I’d like there to be something....
...When I can peek around the edges of that delusion, I’m sustained by late-night candy and the surprising nature of grace: it never comes when I’m pursuing it. I’m always ambushed....
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...“I’m two extremes. I’m very soft and I’m very hard, and I’m trying to find the middle ground,” he explained in 2001....
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...“I’m not saying it’s an easy win, but it’s a very rational way to increase capacity,” says Groizard....
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...It's made us farm harder, actually. We're producing more off this farm now than we've ever produced. We've sort of got on and adapted....
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