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  1. John Fowles _ The French Lieutenant's Woman

    {...} era un viso indimenticabile, un viso tragico. Sgorgava dolore con la stessa purezza, naturalezza e inarrestabilità con cui sgorga l'acqua da una sorgente nei boschi. Non c'era artificio in esso, né ipocrisia, né isterismo, né maschera; soprattutto non c'era la minima traccia di pazzia. La pazzia era nel mare vuoto, nel vuoto orizzonte, {...}; come se la sorgente fosse stata naturale in sé ma innaturale in quanto sgorgava da un deserto.
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  2. Charles Dickens _ The Pickwick Papers

    There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
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  3. A.S. Byatt _ Possession

    It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it had been laid to rest. The librarian fetched a checked duster, and wiped away the dust, a black, thick, tenacious Victorian dust, a dust composed of smoke and fog particles accumulated before the Clean Air acts.
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  4. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis.
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