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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: turns his head, crosses the street, and goes sadly back to his
own house.
I recalled the story, and, having longed to suffer for this
woman, I was afraid that she would accept me too promptly and
give me at once what I fain would have purchased by long waiting
or some great sacrifice. We men are built like that, and it is
very fortunate that the imagination lends so much poetry to the
senses, and that the desires of the body make thus such
concession to the dreams of the soul. If any one had said to me,
You shall have this woman to-night and be killed tomorrow, I
would have accepted. If any one had said to me, you can be her
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