War and Peace vocabulary

J’ai toujours admiré l’oeuvre du sublime dublinois*. And in the meantime the rain had become a voluptuous shower.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grandpères ont toujours tort."*

Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray

^{*grandfathers are always wrong.}