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The "new" world did not exist as a separate, clear-cut, stable entity which a man could grasp and make his own; and likewise the "old" world of squalor and meanness that he had tried to escape by such prodigious effort was not nearly so easy or simple to shake off as he had shaken off his family; it accompanied a man, invisibly and fatefully through all his apparent changes and successes.
— Apr 21, 2022 09:33PM
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The young man listened to him as he might have listened to the babble of water.... Old age! thought the young man. The worst of it was not that one suffered and died but that one grew old, for growing old was a malady for which there was no cure or hope; it was a long-dragged-out death.
— Apr 27, 2022 08:56PM
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Isolated consuls are only too apt to see themselves abandoned by their governments and harassed by their opponents, and to regard themselves as men whom destiny has, so to speak, personally chosen to be the butt of her special malice.
— Apr 26, 2022 09:14PM
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For years to come the hard ringing name of Bonaparte was to echo through the valley of Travnik and, whether they liked it or not, the townspeople were often to mouth its gnarled, angular syllables; the name would long buzz in their ears and hover before their eyes. For the "Time of the Consuls" were at hand.
— Apr 20, 2022 09:47PM
