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- All my life I have had these confounded aspirations towards a certain moral sanity.†
Act 1 *aspirations = desires
- When a man seeks to "simplify" life bestially, throwing aside every relic of humanity, every chaste aspiration, every pure feeling, all sense of ideality, duty, modesty, shame...then nothing is more revolting and nauseous than a certain kind of remorse — crocodiles' tears, that's what it is.†
Act 1aspiration = desire
- How can I possibly be expected — after that — to be a modest young miss, a fit person to go with his confounded aspirations for "a solid moral sanity"?†
Act 1aspirations = desires
Definitions:
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(1)
(aspiration) a desire to achieve something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)