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But Zoraide Reuter? Of course her defection had cut me to the quick?
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Reason was my physician; she began by proving that prize I had missed was of little value: ... physically, Zoraide might have suited me, but affirmed our souls were not in harmony, & that discord must have resulted from union of her mind w/mine. She then insisted on suppression of all repining & commanded me rather to rejoice I escaped snare.
— Jun 08, 2026 08:32PM
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Reason was my physician; she began by proving that prize I had missed was of little value: ... physically, Zoraide might have suited me, but affirmed our souls were not in harmony, & that discord must have resulted from union of her mind w/mine. She then insisted on suppression of all repining & commanded me rather to rejoice I escaped snare.
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Joyce
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children are most sincere; they have not yet had time to become accomplished in duplicity; they will tell lies but they do it inartificially, and you know they are lying; but the grown-up people are very false; they deceive strangers, they deceive each other
— Jun 08, 2026 08:42PM
Joyce
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inhabitants very treacherous; they all think it lawful to tell lies; they call it politeness to profess friendship where they feel hatred
— Jun 08, 2026 08:41PM
Joyce
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I long to live once more among Protestants; they are more honest than Catholics
— Jun 08, 2026 08:40PM
Joyce
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you must be two or three and twenty, I should think?
Pas encore, monsieur - en un mois j'aurai dix-neuf ans
Well, nineteen is a mature age ...
— Jun 08, 2026 08:39PM
Pas encore, monsieur - en un mois j'aurai dix-neuf ans
Well, nineteen is a mature age ...
Joyce
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But (slowly & w/embarrassment) my parents were not all the two Genovese.
Say BOTH, instead of "all the two"
— Jun 08, 2026 08:38PM
Say BOTH, instead of "all the two"
Joyce
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there were only about dozen of them, but they made as much noise as might have sufficed for fifty
— Jun 08, 2026 08:37PM
Joyce
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she could look @ me, it seemed, when perplexed & bewildered, but not when gratified; I thought that scarcely fair.
— Jun 08, 2026 08:37PM
Joyce
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she shrank from me; I was man & heretic; she, destined nun & devoted Catholic: thus four-fold wall of separation divided her mind from mine
— Jun 08, 2026 08:36PM
Joyce
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Our likings are regulated by our circumstances. artist prefers hilly country because it is picturesque; engineer flat one because convenient; man of pleasure likes what he calls "fine woman" - she suits him; fashionable young gentleman admires fashionable young lady - she is of his kind ...
— Jun 08, 2026 08:34PM
