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“The pain was distant now because it had scarcely been bearable then. It could not really be recollected because it had become a part of him. (...) The old pain receded into the home it had made in him. But another pain, homeless yet, began knocking at his heart - not for the first time: it would force an entry one day, and remain with him for ever.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“Then even his luggage belonged to him again, and he strode through the barriers, more high-hearted than he had ever been as a child, into that city which the people from heaven had made their home.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“These fantasies began as fantasies of love and soured imperceptibly into fantasies of violence and humiliation.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“Their arms locked around each other, then they drew apart, and, holding hands, stumbled into the bedroom, into the great haven of their bed. Perhaps it had never before seemed so much like a haven, so much their own, now that the terrible floodwaters of time were about to overtake it. And perhaps they had never before so belonged to each other… as they did now, burning and sobbing on the crying bed.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“New York seemed very strange indeed… It seemed to have no sense whatever of the exigencies of human life; it was so familiar and so public that it became, at last, the most despairingly private of cities. One was continually being jostled, yet longed, at the same time, for the sense of others, for a human touch”
― Another Country
― Another Country
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