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1  I was only insufferably oppressed by her being here.
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2  Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.
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3  Today, for instance, I am particularly oppressed by one memory of a distant past.
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4  Everything that was just, but oppressed and looked down upon, they laughed at heartlessly and shamefully.
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5  I have hundreds of such reminiscences; but at times some one stands out from the hundred and oppresses me.
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6  Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though oppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it.
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7  No wonder; all the evening I had been oppressed by memories of my miserable days at school, and I could not shake them off.
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8  We are oppressed at being men--men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man.
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