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They were, each of them, responsible for her husband’s abandonment. Ciara had forgotten why they did it, recalling the act without the reason. Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory.
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
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“To understand all is to forgive all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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