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...ual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debate in Europe, America, and Asia on matters relating to sexual abstinence and the hypocrisy of marriage. The novella emphasizes Tolstoy's controversial view on sexuality, which asserts that physical desire is an obstacle to relations between men and women and may result in tragedy. The Kreutzer Sonata has ...

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...isons with which their brains are pregnant; not faces so much as masks; masks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of joy, masks of hypocrisy; all alike worn and stamped with the indelible signs of a panting cupidity? What is it they want? Gold or pleasure?...

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...ks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of joy, masks of hypocrisy; all alike worn and stamped with the indelible signs of a panting...

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...is portion of Christendom which is gone astray. The third kind of false Christianity is hypocrisy. I give it here this equivocal name, because it do... ...king of false religion, figured by beasts, no one can persuade himself that the vice of hypocrisy in religious matters should not have a place. Of wh... ...m the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy;” or, as it is in the Syriac version, ‘Who shall pr... ... present produced, and shall further be produced by heresy, and the system of religions hypocrisy and libertinism! Above all, what evils have not be... ...ed the highest pitch. They were for the most part corrupt, full of malice, of guile, of hypocrisy, of avarice, of ambition; and consequently full lik...

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...l of it; the two wearers of the waistcoat, either with sincer- ity or with hypocrisy, professed in the matter an equal expertness; and Densher at last... ...m of mind to welcome, on that supposition, a fresh sign of the beauti- ful hypocrisy of women. He went so far as to enjoy believ- ing the girl might h... ...s with you—!” “Oh I can imagine.” He had reached the point in the scale of hypocrisy at which he could ask himself why a little more or less should si...

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...rsation failed of ease, and I, for my part, felt there would be a shade of hypocrisy in my now trying to make myself agreeable to the partner of my fr...

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... allusions to your having fallen off,” Paul Overt observed with pardonable hypocrisy. He liked his companion so much now that the fact of any decline ...

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... the hunt was uproarious. Why should we seem better than we are? down with hypocrisy, cried the censor morum, spicing the lamentable derelictions of t... ...questioningly worshipful of her lord; for the world is ever gracious to an hypocrisy that pays homage to the mask of virtue by copying it; the world i... ...ership of the English people know, that however truly based the charges of hypocrisy, soundness of moral fi- bre runs throughout the country and is th... ...tressed the motive, produced the sentiment, and passed thus naturally into hypocrisy, as lovers precipitated by their blood among the crises of human ... ... feeling he dared have no personal wishes. It had ceased to be the lover’s hypocrisy with him. The crisis of mortal peril in that house enveloped its ...

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...rough her veins, and were met by Matthew Weyburn’s open face, before which hypocrisy stood rent and stripped. She preferred the calmer, the truer plea... ...e singular in- junctions binding her, regularly write, sees no way between hypocrisy and rebellion. For rebellion, she, with the pen in her hand, is a... ...n. For rebellion, she, with the pen in her hand, is avowedly not yet ripe, hypocrisy is abominable. If she abstained from writing, he might travel dow...

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...and the press has more wit than all men of intellect put together, and the hypocrisy of T artufe besides.” “Blondet! Blondet! you are going too far!” ... ...n fact, the People in folio form,” inter- rupted Blondet. “The people with hypocrisy added and generosity lack- ing,” said Vignon. “All real ability w... ...eacherous stab in the back, let him avoid the snares set for him with base hypocrisy, and endure the most un- handsome treatment, he must still exchan... ...o you and ask for it again.” “I look upon a periodical repentance as great hypocrisy,” d’Arthez said solemnly; “repentance becomes a sort of in- demni...

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... wooden skewer? Neverthe- less, I say, there is in such worship a shade of hypocrisy, a practical deception: for how often does the Body appro- priate... ... Heaven are as if blotted out for a season; and two immeasurable Phantoms, hypocrisy and atheism, with the Ghoul, sensuality, stalk abroad over the Ea...

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...s courage; he is brave; brav- ery, they say, is the only virtue into which hypocrisy cannot enter. While we were travelling I saw his courage tested; ... ... beloved. The love a woman inspires in any man’s heart is flattery without hypocrisy, and it is impossible for some women to forego it; but when that ... ...eakness. She played the invalid for a 168 Balzac whole week with charming hypocrisy. Again and again she walked about the velvet turf which lay betwe...

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... about for the pretext she had given him; and for some reason this trivial hypocrisy weighed on him more than all his heavy burden of deceit. At lengt... ... to look at life, at the human problem, as it is, without fear and without hypocrisy; and it’s not always a pleasant thing to look at.” He broke off, ...

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...ill be sure to look after his career,” said uncle Cardot, conceal- ing his hypocrisy under an air of friendly good-humor. “Monsieur Moreau may die,” s...

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... their devotions; and of such hardness of heart, that they do not, without hypocrisy, even thank the Deity himself for his warm sun and pure air.” As ...

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... dullness as if it were positive virtue, but sets an enormous premium upon hypocrisy. That is my case, and that is why I am telling this side of my st... ...orn into cowardice and debasement. We all are. Our generation’s grimy with hypocrisy. I came to the most beautiful things in life—like peeping Tom of ...

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...ks of this sort that is to me exceedingly distasteful. Avoid the shadow of hypocrisy. Women are subject to it—and it is quite innocent, no doubt. I wo... ...hundered for Master Gammon, by name, vehemently wrathful at the com- bined hypocrisy of the pair. He called twice, and his face was purple and red as ...

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...ort of nonsense our fathers indulged in before the introduction of English hypocrisy,—one of those products against which custom-houses are powerless.... ...it into words. The Revolution of ’89 has at least introduced that virtuous hypocrisy into our social system. But I refrain from politics. VIII 130 Th...

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...se one than a dozen. But I don’t accuse any one. There is not the smallest hypocrisy about Catherine, and I deny that she even pretends to be miserabl...

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...l must pass under strangers’ eyes, who would think such feelings plausible hypocrisy in a convicted felon. Again she took it up, to suck to the utmost... ...times I mean, though they often made me think the comfort I had there mere hypocrisy and delusion, and be nearly ready to give over what depended on m... ...ut that was the worst time of all—the monotony of school, and the sense of hypocrisy and delu- sion in teaching—the craving to confess, if only for th...

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...l it was calcula- tion, a predetermined course, a “liberal” and democratic hypocrisy, played with a perfection that no other actor will ever attain. T... ...ning to put opinions into his mouth. In art—and perhaps Moliere had placed hypocrisy in the rank of art by classing Tartuffe forever among comedians— ... ...efore going finally off, Madame Cardinal went through a piece of very deep hypocrisy. We have seen how she hesi- tated about leaving the portress alon...