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What the boy had felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope.
Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.
Thirty years later he could not come to any other conclusion: women were indisputably better than men. They were gentler, more affectionate, loving and compassionate; they were less prone to violence, selfishness, cruelty or self-centeredness. Moreover, they were more rational, intelligent and hardworking.
They would come to be rivals—which was the natural relationship between men. They would be like animals fighting in a cage; and the cage was time.
We try to sell a body which is ever more exhausted, mutinous, recalcitrant And we disappear In the shadow of sorrow Into true despair,
Unhappiness isn’t at its most acute point until a realistic chance of happiness, sufficiently close, has been envisioned.
“There was something about him,” said Walcott, “something monstrously sad. I think he was probably the saddest man I have ever met, and even the word ‘sadness’ seems inadequate; there was something broken in him, something completely devastated. I always got the impression that life was a burden to him,
