It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.


Marginalia note, first edition of La Chartreuse de Parme (1840)

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.