I listened-much as you're listening now, Dick, but it wasn't from curiosity, it was something more. I hated the thought of this world that must be lived in-the sordid pitiful lives of men and women, who can't get beyond their own bodies. I could see this girl, living as she did without the excuse of poverty-she wasn't any prostitute having to keep herself, but spoiling her beauty, her health, and her own precious individuality, which is greater than anything in life, Dick, because some man had taught her to be self-indulgent. There wasn't anything more in it than that.
( Daphne du Maurier )
[ I'll Never Be Young Again ]
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