Chapter 1

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COSMOPOLIS

By Paul Bourget

Conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity

Despotism natural to puissant personalities

Egyptian tobacco, mixed with opium and saltpetre

Follow their thoughts instead of heeding objects

Has as much sense as the handle of a basket

Have never known in the morning what I would do in the evening

I no longer love you

Imagine what it would be never to have been born

Mediocre sensibility

Melancholy problem of the birth and death of love

Mobile and complaisant conscience had already forgiven himself

No flies enter a closed mouth

Not an excuse, but an explanation of your conduct

One of those trustful men who did not judge when they loved

Only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood

Pitiful checker-board of life

Scarcely a shade of gentle condescension

Sufficed him to conceive the plan of a reparation

That suffering which curses but does not pardon

That you can aid them in leading better lives?

The forests have taught man liberty

There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas

There is always and everywhere a duty to fulfil

Thinking it better not to lie on minor points

Too prudent to risk or gain much

Walked at the rapid pace characteristic of monomaniacs

Words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered

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