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...there__ a great deal which I don__ understandin people. In a human being everything should be beautiful: the face, the clothes, the soul, the thoughts. . . .Often I see a beautiful face and clothes, so beautiful that my head gets giddy with rapture; but as for the soul and thoughts,my God! In a beautiful outside there__ sometimes hidden such a black soul that no whitening can rub it off...
Anton Chekhov The Wood Demon: A Comedy in Four Acts
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...there__ a great deal which I don__ understandin people. In a human being everything should be beautiful: the face, the clothes, the soul, the thoughts. . . .Often I see a beautiful face and clothes, so beautiful that my head gets giddy with rapture; but as for the soul and thoughts,my God! In a beautiful outside there__ sometimes hidden such a black soul that no whitening can rub it off...
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The Wood Demon: A Comedy in Four Acts

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