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“…frustration-he knew the word frustration, had read all about it-clamped his shoulders, weighed like a stone in his body, pressed hatred and tears up to his eyes, as if a volcano were churning in him.”

“She remembered one day not so long ago when for fifteen minutes she had been unable to think of her name. She had run in panic to the doctor.”

“It was a statement of less than a hundred words, saying that snails manifested a sensuality in their mating that was not to be found elsewhere in the animal kingdom.”

“He imagined, rigid in every muscle, that he was suffering the absolute worst that any human being could suffer. He imagined that he was dying. But he did not think of death as an escape, only as a concentrated and painful incident.”