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La vie ressemble plus souvent ? un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble ? la vie.
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
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Metella, ch. 1 (1833); Robert J. Ackerman Perfect Daughters (Deerfield Beach, Fla.: HCI, 2002) p. 31

 

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