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- Author Sebastian Barry
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What can I tell you further? I once lived among humankind, and found them in their generality to be cruel and cold, and yet could mention the names of three or four that were like angels.I suppose we measure the importance of our days by those few angels we spy among us, and yet aren't like them.
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A memory so clear, so wonderful, so beyond the bounds of possibility.I know it.My head is as clear as a glass.
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I know she absolutely delights in the improvement of the weather, in the turning of the year.
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I must admit there are 'memories' in my head that are curious even to me.
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I knew, I knew any proper, decent life was over. The word of a man like that was like a death sentence . . . I had known it all along, but it is a very different matter to know your sentence, and then to hear it spoken by your judge . . . Truest of all things, there was no one to help me, no one to stand at my side.
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I had no desire to be seen by anyone, or talk to anyone. Sometimes out walking I would be in such a peculiar state of mind that I would rush home at the merest hint of another person.
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What would have comforted that writhing woman in a lost bed in the lost land of Strandhill I do not know. If I were a horse they would have shot me out of mercy.
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Because I thought it was still possible everything was all right. Why did I think that? Because I had not heard otherwise. I was in the middle of a mystery.
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My story hurries me on.
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