"National literature begins with fables and ends with novels."
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[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.
— Josephine de Beauharnais
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O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.
— Callimachus
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