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Were you in love with her?
The question is in a way meaningless, she knows, but one must ask. Love in such situations is rarely real. Sex is the engine, exalting and ruining people, sex and…
Christ, he thinks, by my age I ought to know
You don’t get on by being original. You don’t get on by being bright. You don’t get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook;
A judgment that is necessarily hampered
A judgment that is necessarily hampered, bot only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.
A secret always has a strengthening effect
A secret always has a strengthening effect upon a newborn friendship, as does the shared impression than an external figure is to blame: the men of the Crown have become…
I was disconcerted, for I had broken away
I was disconcerted, for I had broken away without quite seeing where I was going to. It was not to be shuffled off now, however, and I answered, `The beautiful…
He buried her beside her husband
He buried her beside her husband. After the services were over and the few mourners had gone, he stood alone in a cold November wind and looked at the two…
What was I after all?
Near enough what Conchis had had me told: nothing but the net sum of countless wrong turnings. I dismissed most of the Freudian jargon of the trial; but all my…
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…
Lyrical poetry is a realm in which any
statement immediately becomes truth. Yesterday the poet said life is a vale of tears; today he said life is a land of smiles; and he was right both times. There…