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Spirited men and women, the young above all, were devoted to the pursuit of love. By contrast the bourgeois was dominated by fears of violent death. There, in the briefest form possible, you have a sketch of Ravelstein's most important preoccupations.
— May 21, 2026 07:01AM
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He had, what is more, the courage to assert his right to be exactly what he seemed to be. This as Ravelstein pointed out was not posture. There was absolutely nothing in Nikki's appearance that was decorative or theatrical. He doesn't look for trouble, mind you, but "he's always ready for a fight. And his sense of himself is such that... hell fight. I've often had to hold him back."
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It pleased him that she had fallen in love with an old guy like me. "There's a class of women who naturally go for old men," he said. As I've already indicated, he was drawn to irregular behavior. Especially where love was the motive.
— May 21, 2026 06:59AM
