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particle, and squeezes it either till it grimaces or till it bleeds. Sometime the grimace is very droll, sometimes the wound is very horrible... "

Henry James

p 26

"High Society makes a failure of every scholar, every artist, every intelligent man whom it captures. It destroys every sincere feeling by its way of frittering away taste, curiosity, desire, the little flame that burns within us."

p 295

My state is well expressed by the howling of certain dogs - a lamentable complaint addressed to nothing, reaching nowhere, saying nothing, but flinging into the night the cry of chained-up anguish that I should like to utter. If I could wail like them, I should sometimes go out onto

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a great plain or into the depths of a wood, and I should howl for hours on end in the shadows. That I feel, would relieve me.

My mind is following dark valleys, that lead me I know not where. They open one into another, merge, and are deep and long, impossible to escape from. I leave one only to find myself in another, and I cannot foresee what will be at its end. I am afraid that weariness may make me decide later on, not to continue along this senseless road. (1891?)

p 327

Maupassant 1850-1893 died at age 43.

On the first page of this book there is a quote from Flaubert in a letter to Maupassant. In the Steegmuller book in a much fuller quote it is from Maupassant quoting advice given to him by Flaubert not a letter

"There is a part of everything that remains