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“The strain on her face was still there, like weathered rocks under a thin mantle of snow.”
“Suddenly, as if by the fiat of a wicked fairy, he had been utterly dispossessed.”
“Doubts are like swallows. They follow each other and swarm together.”
“There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.”
“The spent shell come out the .243 shining like a bright idea.”