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and the impression he gave, or gave that last year anyway, apart from being always muy borracho of course, was of a man living in continual terror of his life.
Deception and despair in 1939. The Consul sees how awful and cruel humans are and it’s too much to handle. It doesn’t matter how far he is from Europe. It doesn’t matter that he has a good woman who loves him. “Muy borracho” means “very drunk”. He loses himself in drink.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
“Scotland it is, then! That’s where Hogwarts is.”
― Again, but Better
― Again, but Better
“My anxiety has always bled into my decisions,”
― Twisted
― Twisted
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
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“I saw children and grandchildren and rocking chairs on the back porch of the house overlooking the river and two old people, dying on the same day because the world would never be cruel enough to make either one of us exist without the other.”
― Part of Your World
― Part of Your World
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