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“I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Saviour had met in me.”

“It is cruel to have made me want
rating for you to com
to live only to make my death more bloody.”

"Then we had both been silent. When I woke up in his room, I remembered that there had been something strained and painful in the quality of that silence; which had been broken when Giovanni said, with a shy, bitter smile: I must find some poetic figure.'
And he spread his heavy fingers in the air, as though a metaphor were tangible. I watched him."

All of page 74 and 75 are just beautiful (the last few pages of Part 2, Chapter 1)

"The sensual lips turned inward, busy with the sorrow overflowing from his heart. It became a stranger's face - or it made me so guilty to look on him that I wished it were a stranger's face. Not all my memorizing had prepared me for the metamorphosis which my memorizing had helped to bring about."

'Somebody,' said Jacques, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.'

“Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both.”

“Their decisions are not really decisions at all - a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named - but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not.”