“You have sometimes thought of going back?" "Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.”
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“Do you think it's ever safe to say one's happy?”
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“I know how he is . . . and I can see he's not a convenient man to be in love with.”
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“Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?”
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“But she felt that she had to see him or she would die.”
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“We're just living on our emotions and eating each other.”
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“Sex comes to most of us with a twist.”
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“One knows what being in love is like and it is a very terrible thing.”
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“Her love for men had always been somehow neurotic and unfulfilled.”
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“You can't kiss me and vanish.”
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“I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.”
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“I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.”
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“It's all someone else's secret.”
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“She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.”
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“I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.”
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“He felt removed from reality.”
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“It seemed to echo away into the hidden spaces and honeycombs of the dark.”
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“He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.”
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“The had met at a party. Falling in love surprised them both.”
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“She shivered in the sunlight as if it were the ray of a malignant star.”
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“There's little enough love in the world. Why do you want to kill mine?”
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“Do anything you like . . . only don't say the word 'never'. I should die of that word.”
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“Perhaps his demons were quite other.”
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“Could she endure it, the long vigil of death made visible?”
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“They haven't been standing still in the past.”
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“The past is gone, it doesn't exist any more.”
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“We think with our body, with its yearnings and its shrinkings and its ghostly walkings.”
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