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The Palais Royal ate a hundred fortunes a night under its lamps and gave back nine.
You had gone there to be one of the nine, which is the whole of a gambler's theology.
EmileYou stake like a man feeding a creditor. Where is the pleasure in that?
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Pleasure left when the money did. Now there is only arithmetic.
Watch. The next round forgives everything.
A novelist should study a man losing everything.