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"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
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