The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand.
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