Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.Anita Brookner
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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