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During the first part of your life
During the first part of your life, you only become aware of happiness once you have lost it. Then an age comes, a second one, in which you already know,…
Everything failed to subdue me
Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, failing love, war, the discoveries people made about each other.
For although a man is judged by his actions
For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he…
He stood over the body in the fading light
Adjusting the hair and putting the finishing touches to the simple toilet, doing all mechanically, with soulless care. And still through his consciousness ran an undersense of conviction that all…
Now they were in the earth
Now they were in the earth to which they had given their lives; and slowly, year by year, the earth would take them.
Always I had acted as if a third person was watching
Always I had acted as if a third person was watching and listening and giving me marks for good or bad behaviour – a god like a novelist, to whom…
Sometimes, when Chapuys has finished
digging up Walter’s bones and making his own life unfamiliar to him, he feels almost impelled to speak in defense of his father, his childhood. But it is no use…
If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora.
was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking,
I knew that on the island one was driven
back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten…