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“Life will be too short for people to tell about it.”
“You always have to take the side of the dead,”
It might have been true, but he would have answered anything else in the same way, because he had a way of speaking that served to conceal rather than to reveal.
“Any man will be happy with them because they’ve been raised to suffer.”
Angela Vicario only dared hint at the inconvenience of a lack of love, but her mother demolished it with a single phrase: “Love can be learned too.”
And that thought frightened her, because she’d always felt that only children are capable of everything.
She taught us much more than we should have learned, but she taught us above all that there’s no place in life sadder than an empty bed.
Most of all, he never thought it legitimate that life should make use of so many coincidences forbidden literature, so that there should be the untrammeled fulfillment of a death so clearly foretold.
