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Shocking, sad ... obsessive. I guess I shouldn't be shocked; there are numerous stories reported daily on sex offenders. What shocks me I guess is the perspective the story is written from .... in the form of a confession. I try to find sympathy with
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“ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.”
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“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn't work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.”
― Dreams of Joy
― Dreams of Joy
“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”
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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”
― Work: A Story of Experience
― Work: A Story of Experience
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