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“The battered and pathetic thing that represented any claim to conscience I might have had turned away from me in disgust. Oddly, I couldn't blame it. I was disgusted myself. Disgusted at my weaknes...”
“The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.”
“There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was m...”
“It's a pity. I don't know who he is to you... But you are disgusting. To claim you fight for his honor, when all you do is bring shame to his name.”
“The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust were able to consume more calories than their ov...”
“in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of the people all around himin that moment his whole disgust for human...”
“He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything.”
“And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.”
“I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it”
“[L]ove ... privileges another to see us in ways that would shame us and disgust others without the intervention of love.”
“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of the people all around him—in that moment his whole disgust for hum...”
