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I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.

— Theodore Dreiser

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Source: "The First Voyage Over," The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (August 1913); later published in A Traveler at Forty (1913), ch. I: "Barfleur Takes Me in Hand"
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