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Novels
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A romantic novel with a happy ending
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A cartoon for a stained-glass window
Firecrackers
A realistic novel
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"Et puis, pour nous les rendre supportables et sans remords, ne faut-il pas anoblir un peu toutes nos distractions?" Octave Mirbeau.
"'There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the Footman, 'and that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are: secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you.'" Lewis Carroll.
"The worst of life is, nearly everybody marches to a different tune." The Archduchess: The Flower beneath the Foot.
"Un peu trop c'est juste assex pour moi." Jean Cocteau.
"I do not think we are so unhappy as we are vain, or so malicious as silly; so mischievous as trifling, or so miserable as we are vile." Michel de Montaigne.
"We acquire the knowledge of that which we deserve to know." P. D. Ouspensky.
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