“The epithet should be the mistress of the substantive, never its lawful wife.”
L'épithète doit être la maîtresse du substantif, jamais sa femme légitime.
Source: Notes sur la vie (published posthumously 1899), P. 3; translation p. 338.
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L'épithète doit être la maîtresse du substantif, jamais sa femme légitime.
Notes sur la vie (published posthumously 1899)
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