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I have battered destructively and in vain upon the mystery of someone else's life and must cease at last.
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But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.
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My God, that bloody casket has fallen on the floor! Some people were hammering in the next flat and it fell off its bracket. The lid has come off and whatever was inside it has certainly got out. Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder?
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.
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The grass on the other side of the road was a pullulating emerald green, the rocks that grew here and there among the grass were almost dazzlingly alight with little diamonds. The warm air met me in a wave, thick with land smells of earth and growth and flowers.
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There are secret saints with strange destinies.
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It ceased at last, as everything dreadful has to cease, even if it ceases only by death.
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But the tomorrow upon which I was to make my decision never, in the form in which I had envisaged it, arrived.
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