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He never once spoke to Odette of the blunder he had made that night; and it was never in his mind. But occasionally, with a careless step of thought, he would trip over the unseen memory of it, which would push it farther into him and cause him a deep stab of pain.

“Nothing would have given M. Vinteuil more pleasure, but he was so intensely polite and scrupulously considerate that he always tried to see things from other people's points of view, and was afraid of being a bore or seeming selfish if he followed his own desires or merely let slip a hint of them.”

"Being thus deprived of the anaesthetic of habit, I would begin to have thoughts and feelings, and they are always fraught with unhappiness."

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