"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need."
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Source: Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black). Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XLIV), November 1830.
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