To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.
It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.
Jean Santeuil
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It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.
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