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A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...

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His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

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It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we can...more

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Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame mer...more

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And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some o...more

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Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, sh...more

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I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time...more

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A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaqu...more