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No; he was no Bœotian; he was no Epicurean; he could not say that in his heart, he followed the admirable advice of the great poet: "Pluck today's flower, and give no thought to the morrow's."
He was passing through all of the most common and most vulgar phases of falling in love; he had moments of sadness, of anger, of wounded and maltreated self-esteem.