Vulgar words in Jean-Christophe Journey's End (Page 1)
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What he would be like twenty years later was shown in another corner of the room, in the person of an old pomaded _maestro_, who was rich, famous, a member of all the Academies, at the very height of his career, and, though apparently he had nothing to fear and no more wires to pull, groveled before everything and everybody, and was fearful of opinion, power, and the Press, dared not say what he thought, and thought nothing at all--a man who had ceased to exist, showing himself off, an ass saddled with the relics of his own past life.
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There is nothing left: I'm worn out, Christophe, fagged out.
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Shaking with fury, Christophe got out and asked for another train, battering the sleepy officials with questions, and only knocking up against indifference.
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One face would remind him of a face he had known and the lips would say--(as he was quite sure they would)--exactly the same things as he had heard from the original: beings similar to each other would pass through similar phases, knock up against the same obstacles, suffer from them in exactly the same way.