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En este caso, Sam sintió que su respuesta había sido mucho más impura que con la viuda, se confundía más con el deseo de que la mujer que detentaba el poder sobre su felicidad lo tratara con más delicadeza, lo cual no alteraba la verdad subyacente: cualquier forma de crueldad era intolerable para alguien que se negaba, o no conseguía, encerrarse en sí mismo.
In that case, he felt that his response was much more impure than it had been with the widow, more tangled up with the desire for the woman who had power over his happiness to treat him more gently, but the underlying truth was intact: every kind of cruelty was unbearable to someone who refused, or failed, to shut down.
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