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But he could not save her unless she wanted to be saved.
“Nothing is permanent, except change.”
“Cuius regio, eius religio.” This was the slogan of the Augsburg treaty, and it meant: “Whose realm, his religion.”
When we make an enemy there should be some benefit to us. Otherwise we have harmed only ourselves.”
“We’re all equal when the cards are dealt.”
“Better to let sleeping dogs lie,”
Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.
old flames that had sputtered out long ago.
They parted company with little ceremony, in the manner of brothers.
But she was a prisoner of hope.
Virtue is the only nobility.
“But in order to defeat them I have become like them.”
The business of espionage required a lot of patience,
There was a hole in my life, a great gaping cavity that could never be filled. But the dead live on in our imaginations. I think that’s the true meaning of ghosts.
In time the hurricane of grief and rage abated, and I was possessed by a calm, sad resignation.
“Men always worship the rising rather than the setting sun,”
His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing. Its tables and beds were the songs he could sing, the plays he had watched, the cathedrals he had seen, and the books he had read in English, French, and Latin. He shared this notional house with his family, alive and dead: his parents, his brother, the women he had loved, the children.
