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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,…
Your only chance of survival
Your only chance of survival, if you are sincerely smitten, lies in hiding this fact from the woman you love, of feigning a casual detachment under all circumstances.
They look so fine, and young
They look so fine, and young, and wrapped up in each other. Love is so fresh and clean at that age. Don’t you think?
But just as I didn’t want to resent my kids
I also didn’t want to find myself too much in love with them. There are parents who don’t like to hear their little girl crying at night, at the vast…
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…
On foot, from necessity or in deference
On foot, from necessity or in deference to his dismounted commander or associates, his conduct was the same. He would stand like a rock in the open when officers and…
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 thought of the cost exacted
He thought of the cost exacted, year after year, by the soil; and it remained as it had been—a little more barren, perhaps, a little more frugal of increase. Nothing…
I hoped she did not dislike me,
under no illusions that she might remember me in any way fondly; that is, if she remembered me at all. I was but one of a procession; I provided extra…