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We shall explain later on what we mean by nervous weaknesses and why it is that a Greek of the time of Socrates, a Roman of the time of Augustus, might be what we know them to have been and yet remain absolutely normal, not men-women such as we see around us today."
Marcel Proust in Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah). The main character is reflecting on his awe for the dandy, M. de Charlus
