Louis-Ferdinand Celine :
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.
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Trade
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Age and Aging
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Literature
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