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Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

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Avarice, like love, has the gift of second sight, instinctively guessing at future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments.

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“Sometimes he would stare at a hand-sized place on her body, the notch above her hip, the curve of her calf, the groove at the back of her neck, and he worried about the loyalty of his hands, daydreamed about their betrayal.”
― Jess Walter, Over Tumbled Graves: A Novel

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“The face of London was now indeed strangely altered:”
― Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

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“though it is true all the people did not go out of the city of London, yet I may venture to say that in a manner all the horses did; for there was hardly a horse to be bought or hired in the whole city for some weeks.”
― Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

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“here I cannot but take notice that the strange temper of the people of London at that time contributed extremely to their own destruction.”
― Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

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“that the infection was propagated insensibly, and by such persons as were not visibly infected, who neither knew whom they infected or who they were infected by.”
― Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

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