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“Very clever people often assume no one else is as clever as they are. Which isn’t very clever of them, when you think about it.”
When one is satisfied with how the world appears, there is no need to look any deeper or farther. Peeking below the surface of things, one often discovers things one would rather not see, whether it is worms tilled up by the plow or wads of dust beneath a bed.
He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. George Gordon, Lord Byron,
Everything has a rhythm, Moncrieffe couldn’t help but think, watching. The sea, our breathing, our anguish, our love. We couldn’t endure the force of any of it all at once. It has to ebb and flow.
