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“But now he realized that he had no one to meet tonight, nor tomorrow, nor ever, and that he was facing his longed-for solitude at last.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“But if you’re happy here, why are you leaving?” Catherine had asked.
“There’s the risk of being loved, little Catherine, and that would keep me from being happy.”
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“There’s the risk of being loved, little Catherine, and that would keep me from being happy.”
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“For twenty years I’ve been unable to have the experience of certain happiness. This life which
devours me — I won’t have known it to the full, and what frightens me about death is the certainty
it will bring me that my life has been consummated without me. I will have lived … marginally
— do you understand?”
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devours me — I won’t have known it to the full, and what frightens me about death is the certainty
it will bring me that my life has been consummated without me. I will have lived … marginally
— do you understand?”
―
“A lot of men complicate their lives and invent problems for themselves.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory … Everything is forgotten, even a great love. That’s what’s sad about life, and also what’s wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That’s why it’s good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion—it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
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