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Quotation from The Red and the Black by Stendhal

“The word hypocrisy surprises you?”

Stendhal (spoken by The narrator)

The Red and the Black, Book I, Chapter V, trans. Horace B. Samuel (1916)

The narrator addresses the reader about Julien's calculated piety.

Citation: "The word hypocrisy surprises you?" — Stendhal, The Red and the Black, Book I, Chapter V, trans. Horace B. Samuel (1916). (id stendhal-the-red-and-the-black-q2)

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