L'homme se dégagera peu à peu de ce qui le protégeait naguère; de ce qui désormais l'asservit. - André Gide

Disease had taken hold of Marceline, never again to leave her; it had marked her, stained her. Henceforth she was a thing that had been spoiled.

Il y a des maladies extravagantes.
Qui consistent à vouloir ce que l'on n'a pas.

The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented me were those who understood me least.