Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
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