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Updated: July 5, 2025
Like the snow, which hides the familiar brown soil from us, with its unearthly and uncongenial whiteness, its perpetual snow chills and repels human sympathies.
Queer, yes; and he's impressive, too, with a sort of magnetic personality that attracts and repels you violently at the same time. He's like a cake of ice dipped in alcohol and set aflame. I can't describe him. When he talks " "Does he talk about himself?" I had to confess that he had told us practically not a word.
Scenes there are many in this wide world of ours which neither the craft of the scribe nor the skill of the painter can hope to reproduce, and this is one of them. It is awful in its grandeur, terrible in its sublimity, like Milton's Satan. It fascinates, and yet repels; charms the eye, while it chills the heart.
Her very virtues are enemies of her peace; if she appears as a constant check and monitor, she repels; if she weakly acquiesces, the stream will flow over both of them. The dilemma seems hopeless. It would be a mistake to suppose that either Edith or Jack put their relations in any such definite shape as this. He was unthinking.
None could know or comprehend the force of my attachment my dependence upon the attachment of which I felt assured! none but those who, with an earnest, impetuous nature like my own doomed to denial from the first, and treated with injustice and unkindness has felt the pang of a worse privation from the beginning; the privation of that sustenance, which is the "very be all and end all" of its desire and its life and the denial of which chills and repels its fervor throws it back in despondency upon itself fills it with suspicion, and racks it with a never-ceasing conflict between its apprehension and its hopes.
To shun evils as sins is to shun the infernal societies that are in them, and man cannot shun these unless he repels them and turns away from them; and a man cannot turn away from them with repulsion unless he loves good and from that love does not will evil.
And though it has no tendency, I repeat, to mend the heart, or to secure it from the dominion in other shapes of those very evils which it repels in the particular modes of approach by which they prevail over others, yet cases may occur when it gives birth, after sins have been committed, to so keen a remorse and so intense a self-hatred, as are even sufficient to cure the particular moral disorder, and to prevent its accesses ever afterwards;—as the spendthrift in the story, who, after gazing on his lost acres from the summit of an eminence, came down a miser, and remained a miser to the end of his days.
The delusion is so strong and absolute in ignorance, is so identified with it, and so systematically repels at all points the approach of knowledge, that it is difficult to conceive a mode of its extermination that shall not involve some fearful destruction, in the most literal sense, of the people whom it possesses.
For example, there can be no doubt that one may see from time to time the pseudo-intellectual woman. She affects an interest in literature, attends lectures on Browning and Emerson, shows an academic interest in slum work, and presents, on the whole, a selfishness or an egotism which repels.
She did not reply, but, pale and sorrowful, glided from the room to weep bitter tears in the seclusion of her chamber. Curtis Waring followed the retreating form of his cousin with a sardonic smile. "She is in the toils! She cannot escape me!" he muttered. "But" and here his brow darkened "it vexes me to see how she repels my advances, as if I were some loathsome thing!
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