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Wealth does not cure the illnesses of the mind and the heart. Only the affection, the devotion, the altruism of a loved one can if not cure them, at least alleviate them. (chapter X)

— Cléante Valcin Cruelle Destinée (1929)

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"Poor little white butterflies!" [she] thought. "Why is your life so fragile and our game so brutal?" (chapter IV)

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Remorse is a slow but harsh venom. (chapter III)

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For [him] a woman's heart was just a toy: he had broken so many of them without remorse! (chapter I)

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