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1  And yet you are right--it really is vulgar and contemptible.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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2  To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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3  In fact, in the end it seemed vulgar to me myself, and I began putting out my tongue at myself.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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4  He was vulgar in the extreme, but at the same time he was a good-natured fellow, even in his swaggering.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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5  And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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6  The coat in itself was a very good one, it kept me warm; but it was wadded and it had a raccoon collar which was the height of vulgarity.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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7  It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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8  Of Simonov's two visitors, one was Ferfitchkin, a Russianised German--a little fellow with the face of a monkey, a blockhead who was always deriding everyone, a very bitter enemy of mine from our days in the lower forms--a vulgar, impudent, swaggering fellow, who affected a most sensitive feeling of personal honour, though, of course, he was a wretched little coward at heart.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III