# Epigraph explained — Three Lives

> Chapter companion for Three Lives by Gertrude Stein.

## What happens

A single line from Jules Laforgue introduces the book, expressing a sense of unhappiness that is neither the speaker's fault nor life's.

## Key lines

> Donc je suis malheureux et ce n’est ni ma faute ni celle de la vie.

So I am unhappy, and it is neither my fault nor life's.

_The epigraph sets a tone of existential resignation._

## Links

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