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- No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her…
- Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.
- Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has…
- ...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever…
- Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human…
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