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There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity — pushes off hope like a boat without a rower, and lets it go as it will on the stream, and resigns himself to the tally stick of pain.
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But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.
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All that remains of me now is a rumour of beauty.
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She was altered by time and how he wished he was to be the man to comfort her in that and avow to her that no lessening of youth would bring a lessening of love
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I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.
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How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?
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I am content to say that caught as I was, without rescuers as I was in that moment, there was a fierce, dark fury moving through me, wave upon wave, like the sea itself, that was bizarrely a comfort. My face maybe showing only a shadow of it, as faces will . . .Rage, dark rage, lightened by nothing.
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Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there
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Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.
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