"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."
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Source: La Chartreuse de Parme. Book by Stendhal, first edition, marginalia note, 1840.
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