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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux was a prominent French poet of the 17th century, known for his classical poetry and literary criticism. His works emphasized order, rules, and reason, and had a profound impact on subsequent literary development. more

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“Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances. 'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'”

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Author:Edith Wharton
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“It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.”

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Book:Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
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