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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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Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors an...more

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The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four ...more

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Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tab...more

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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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All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from...more

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She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent ...more

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... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the ...more

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... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

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... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

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He had, indeed, one of those advantages which men who had lived and moved in the world enjoy over others, even men of intelligence and refinement, who...more

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It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle, painstaking women that they devote all their gene...more

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look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and f...more

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She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced ...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