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“Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in the corner…” (p. 7)

“I swear to you, gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.” (p. 8)
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Giancarlo “The more conscious I was of the good and all of this “beautiful and lofty”, the deeper I kept sinking into my mire, and the more capable I was of getting completely stuck in it.” (p. 9)

“I have, for example, a terrible amour propre. I am as insecure and touchy as a hunchback or a dwarf, yet there have indeed been moments when if I had happened to be slapped, I might even be glad of it.” (p. 10)


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