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Sainte Beuve (n.) wanders ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠around, cowardly, curious, bored, eavesdropping--a female at bottom, with a female's lust for revenge and a female's sensuality.

Sainte Beuve (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a psychologist, a genius slander who knows better than anyone how to mix praise with poison.

Sainte Beuve (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing of virility, full of petty wrath against all virile spirits.

Sainte Beuve (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Plebeian in the lowest instincts and related to the ressentiment of Rousseau: consequently, a romantic -- for underneath all romantisme lie the grunting and greed of Rousseau's instinct for revenge.

Sainte Beuve (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠embittered against everything great in men and things, against everything that believes in itself.

Sainte Beuve (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a revolutionary, but kept within bounds by "funk."

Sainte Beuve (n.) actually ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠worried himself all his life because he had shown some warmth or passion either "pro" or "con," and he would fein have lied that fact out of his life.