The Law of Nemesis — the law that every extraordinary expansion or satisfaction of heart or brain or will is paid for — paid for inevitably, incommutably, without the possibility of putting off or of transferring the payment — is one of the truths about which no human being with a soul a little above the brute has the slightest doubt.
From Saintsbury’s preface to The Wild Ass’s Skin by Honoré De Balzac (New York: The Review of Reviews Company, Volume Five).
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