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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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