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The one he settled on was Uva uvam vivendo varia fit, which seemed to him a beautiful motto, whatever it meant.
The thought of hanging—a new thought—wouldn’t leave his mind. It became so powerful at one point that he squeezed his throat with one hand, to get a little notion of how it felt not to breathe.
If you did a thing hoping a certain person wouldn’t find out, that person always did.
It seemed to her that the last thing she heard were their marriage vows. After that, though she heard his voice, she didn’t really hear his words.
He wondered if all men felt such disappointment when thinking of themselves.
“Don’t be trying to give back pain for pain,” he said. “You can’t get even measures in business like this.
