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Métella

George Sand Original title Métella (French)

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“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie.
Metella, ch. 1 (1833); Robert J. Ackerman Perfect Daughters (Deerfield Beach, Fla.: HCI, 2002) p. 31

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