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as usual, in all who heard of it the complacent feeling that, “it is he who is dead and not I.”
“Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.”
― Last Friends
― Last Friends
“had never been capable of adjusting the reality of facts to my advantage, and maybe that’s why I was so exhausted.”
― Trust: A Novel
― Trust: A Novel
“The re-dipping of the dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.”
― The Tortoise and the Hare
― The Tortoise and the Hare
“Because you were loved you’ll know how to love. And you will recognise real love for you.”
― Last Friends
― Last Friends
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