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248 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1938
...as they were not driven by the depressing need to earn their daily bread immediately, they told each other it was necessary to change the world. They did not yet know how heavy and flaccid the world is, how little is resembles a wall that can be knocked to the ground in order to put up another much finer one, how it resembles instead a headless and tailless gelatinous heap, a kind of great jelly-fish with well-concealed organs.
But he lapsed into endless reflection upon existence and fate. He no longer thought about anything but saving Catherine, forcing her to be happy in accordance with an idea he had of bliss. All men are like this - but they rarely find women to put up with imposed bliss of this kind. If Bernard was already thinking about organising the future, he was going to lose everything: you can preserve love only by welcoming it with your eyes shut.