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“Yes, jealousy1, that is another of the secrets of marriage known to all and concealed3 by all. Besides the general cause of the mutual4 hatred5 of husbands and wives resulting from complicity in the pollution of a human being, and also from other causes, the inexhaustible source of marital6 wounds is jealousy. But by tacit consent it is determined7 to conceal2 them from all, and we conceal them. Knowing them, each one supposes in himself that it is an unfortunate peculiarity9, and not a common destiny. So it was with me, and it had to be so. There cannot fail to be jealousy between husbands and wives who live immorally10. If they cannot sacrifice their pleasures for the welfare of their child, they conclude therefrom, and truly, that they will not sacrifice their pleasures for, I will not say happiness and tranquillity12 (since one may sin in secret), but even for the sake of conscience. Each one knows very well that neither admits any high moral reasons for not betraying the other, since in their mutual relations they fail in the requirements of morality, and from that time distrust and watch each other.
“Oh, what a frightful13 feeling of jealousy! I do not speak of that real jealousy which has foundations (it is tormenting14, but it promises an issue), but of that unconscious jealousy which
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jealousy
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concealed
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mutual
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hatred
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marital
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adj.婚姻的,夫妻的 | |
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determined
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immoral
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tranquillity
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frightful
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tormenting
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使痛苦的,使苦恼的 | |
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inevitably
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humiliate
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espionage
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lusting
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enveloped
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knaveries
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furrow
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filthy
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allusions
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interrogate
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utterance
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positively
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materialistic
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supreme
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perversion
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