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― The Human Stain
― The Human Stain
“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Archer’s New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. It was a long time since any well-known banker had failed discreditably; but every one remembered the social extinction visited on the heads of the firm when the last event of the kind had happened.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“New York was inexorable in its condemnation of business irregularities. So far there had been no exception to its tacit rule that those who broke the law of probity must pay; and every one was aware that even Beaufort and Beaufort’s wife would be offered up unflinchingly to this principle.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him.”
― The Complete Works of George Orwell: Novels, Poetry, Essays:
― The Complete Works of George Orwell: Novels, Poetry, Essays:
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