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1 " She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:" And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you." She essayed to smile again and expired. "
2 " Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power. "
― Arundhati Roy , The God of Small Things
3 " There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was one who heardThe clip-clapper of this tongue of woodAnd knew what the manWished to sing,And with that the singer was content. "
― Stephen Crane