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... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute m...more

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This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she did not pass through those abnormal hours in whic...more

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Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of ...more

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He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him...more

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He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having fei...more

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Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as t...more

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One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she lo...more

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Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to understand how he could have yielded to a...more

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Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring in Botticelli's Life of Moses, he woul...more

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I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihil...more

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We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

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There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.