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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

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Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842), French novelist. The Red and the Black, ch. XXVII, Levavasseur (1831), trans C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1943.

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