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“I could feel another leaf falling from my heart, the passing of another year.”

“Because God, you know, is a great lord, and that’s what being a lord means: to forgive!”

“Woman is a fresh spring. You lean over her, you see your reflection and you drink; you drink until your bones crack.”

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. And all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”

“I've no time to lose. You're young, you can still afford to be patient. I can't. But I do declare, the older I get the wilder I become! Don't let anyone tell me old age steadies a man! Nor that when he sees death coming he stretches out his neck and says: Cut off my head, please, so that I can go to heaven! The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!"

This was for book club. Book club already met. The struggle is real.