"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff."
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Source: Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.177, Booklassic
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