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If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

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I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and p...more

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Cascando"why not merely the despaired ofoccasion ofwordshedis it not better abort than be barrenthe hours after you are gone are so leadenthey will al...more

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Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul.Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed t...more

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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

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I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up an...more

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A mug's game in my opinion and tiring on top of that, in the long run. But I lent myself to it with a good enough grace, knowing it was love, for she ...more

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Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not ha...more

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Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good.

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they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the sa...more

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Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That...more