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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?
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  2. Christopher Isherwood _ A Single Man

    If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in.
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  3. Gregory Maguire _ Mirror Mirror

    Lucrezia Borgia couldn't be moved by the sentiment, nor could she forgive the insult. Old woman. Old.
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  4. Ian Fleming _ From Russia With Love

    For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.
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  5. D.H. Lawrence _ Lady Chatterley's Lover

    What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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  6. Vladimir Nabokov _ Pnin

    - A sentyment staje się uciążliwy. W końcu jest coś nazbyt fizycznego w próbie zachowania cząstki dzieciństwa na swoim mostku. - Nie pan pierwszy sprowadza wiarę do zmysłu dotyku.
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  7. Vladimir Nabokov _ Glory

    From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experience-which, in the open air, immediately evanesces and fades, and, oddly, becomes similar to an analogous experience of one's interlocutor-was not only vulgar, but also a sin against sentiment.
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  8. Philip Gourevitch _ We Wish to Inform You That

    The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
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  9. H.G. Wells _ The Holy Terror

    Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.
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  10. Orson Scott Card _ The Lost Gate

    Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said."
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