“Did you know how much I missed you?”
Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata
Source: The God of Small Things, p. 233.
“I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how much goodness in the reprobate.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 11, p. 39
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