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"a person who loves selflessly—a truly noble person— somehow seems extraordinary to us. We gaze at such a person as at a comet, and then, having looked our fill, in order that our own dirty, selfish being shouldn't stick out, we begin to throw mud at him, the clean one, at first by behind-the-back slander, then openly, and if the muck still doesn't stick, we sentence him to poverty and suffering."