Sublime

This is especially obvious when detached husbands try to have sex with their wives but believe they can’t ever explicitly ask.

Introduced to a party of people who ignore their own chauffeur, he protests: “I have not met this gentleman

Here she trailed off, because Michael was looking at her in an erasing way so that the strength of every word faded once it had entered the area of his auditory range.

Both popular religion, with its endless joys, and the old comic story, with its endless jokes, have in our time faded together. We are too weak to desire that undying vigour.

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”

Mephistopheles,”

To admire a misanthrope.

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