It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.
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Zum Autor"I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination."
"People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!"
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
"Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?"
"I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours."
"We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie."