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world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Society—civilized society, at least—is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.
To him, man
was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”
sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself.
