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War and Peace vocabulary

10 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)

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veux: tags: [french]

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Definition:

first/second person singular of "vouloir", to want or desire"

Uses:

“Non, dites-lui que je ne veux pas le voir,*

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman9794). Simon & Schuster.

*No, tell him I don't wish to see him

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to save what still could be saved in the way of souvenir, souvenir que me veux-tu?**

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita

**Remember, remember that you want me (this is actually a line from a Paul Verlaine poem)

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Cours la Reine. Encore vingt sous. Nous ferons de petites cochonneries. Minette? Tu veux?***

James Joyce. Ulysses..

***Twenty more sous. We'll fool around. You want to eat some nice pussy?

^{(translation: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Annotations_to_James_Joyce%27s_Ulysses/Scylla_and_Charybdis/193}

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