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772 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1992
Felicité is a woman of sweet and iron willfulness, and she writes books. There are few acres in the field of human knowledge that she has not ploughed with her harrowing pedantry.
When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences, he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.
I dreamt of a republic which all the world would have adored; I could never have believed that men could be so ferocious and so unjust.