Vulgar words in The Ethics of George Eliot's Works (Page 1)
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His answer to her question already quoted, reveals a love which the world's judgment may rank as the best and noblest, but reveals a principle which, applied to aught beneath the only and supremest good, makes love only a more insidious and deeply corrupting form of self-pleasing: "'Tis what I love determines how I love."
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Still the same plea-- "My sin was made for me By men's perverseness:" still the same impulses of mad, despairing self-assertion-- "I have a _right_ to choose my good or ill, A right to damn myself!"
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The "right to damn" himself which he had claimed is his in all its bitterness; and when he would charge the self damnation upon the Gypsy chief, the reply of calm withering scorn can but add keener pang to his awaking remorse: the self-damning "Deed was done Before you took your oath, or reached our camp, Done when you slipped in secret from the post 'Twas yours to keep, and not to meditate If others might not fill it."