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 1 Int|          which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and
 2 Int|         languorous literature, the writer extolled the study of real
 3 Int|         are the “rhymes of a prose writer” as Jules Lemaitre said.
 4 Int|       assumes an authority that no writer, not even Balzac, ever equalled....~
 5 Int|                 In reality, in the writer, his sense of sight and
 6 Int|           harshly, of not being a “writer” in the highest sense of
 7 Int|         Maupassant must be a great writer, a classical writer, in
 8 Int|          great writer, a classical writer, in fact, simply because
 9 Int| ornamentation.”~He remains a great writer because, like Molière, La
10 Int|          against the desire of the writer, who does not arouse pity,
11 Int|        novelist, a story-teller, a writer, and a philosopher by turns.
12 Int|          find in this great, clear writer such lack of precision of
13 Int|           time, his assurance as a writer wavers. As his last volumes