La plus cruelle vengeance d'une femme est quelquefois de nous rester fidèle. - Paul Bourget

Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.

Translation: The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.