"This intimate friend, whom I had called forth from my own soul, and sent on his way to act as he pleased, was by nature evil and vile; the center of all his actions and thoughts was himself: he sucked the pleasure out of the terrible torments of others with the greed of a beast; he was as merciless as a stone statue.
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Author
Robert Louis StevensonAll Translations
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This intimate friend, whom I had called forth from my own soul, and sent on his way to act as he pleased, was by nature evil and vile; the center of all his actions and thoughts was himself: he sucked the pleasure out of the terrible torments of others with the greed of a beast; he was as merciless as a stone statue.
""Ez a benső barát, akit tulajdon lelkemből hívtam elő, és útjára engedtem, hogy cselekedjék kedve szerint, természettől fogva gonosz és hitvány volt; minden tettének, gondolatának középpontja önmaga: vadállati mohósággal szürcsölte a gyönyört mások rettentő kínjaiból; könyörtelen volt, mint egy kőszobor."