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  1. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome & Selected Stories

    Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did-unprepared though we were-that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody!
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  2. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.
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  3. Samuel Beckett _ Molloy, Malone Dies, The

    Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
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