"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."
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Source: Stendhal, Joan Charles (1949). “Stendhal's The Red and the Black”
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