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Of course Paula had revealed her trouble to no one. She preserved it in her private heart like the awful bloody arcana of a mystical religion.
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This was everything that I wanted to be done with, the relaxed banality of life without goals.
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Or did I know by intuition that wonderful and terrible things were really imminent at last, trembling into being just behind the curtain of the future?
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I had been confronted (at last) with a sizeable ordeal labelled with my name. This was not something to be wasted.
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I saw through a black veil of misery and remorse and indecision and fear; and there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart.
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I wanted to drag us all down into some common pool of feeling, I wanted to stop this conventional machine of awful insincere politeness.
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Good-bye to the past, with its mysteries which would never be fully unfolded.
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She must not be tempted by truthfulness, she must play the game out to the end.
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In this connection I must mention too a not altogether rational idea which I had nourished more or less vaguely for a long time: the notion that before I could achieve greatness as a writer I would have to pass through some ordeal. For this ordeal I had waited in vain. Even total war (I was never in uniform) failed to ruffle my life. I seemed doomed to quietness.
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