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“For all policemen were bright enough to know who they were working for, and they were not working, anywhere in the world, for the powerless.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“Both clung to a fantasy rather than to each other, tried to suck pleasure from the crannies of the mind, rather than surrender the secrets of the body.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“It's very hard to live with that,' said Eric.
'I mean, with the sense that one is never what one seems—never—and yet, what one seems to be is probably, in some sense, almost exactly what one is.”
― Another Country
'I mean, with the sense that one is never what one seems—never—and yet, what one seems to be is probably, in some sense, almost exactly what one is.”
― Another Country
“he sat in an armchair, overlooking a foreign sea, still struggling to find the grace which would allow him to bear that revelation. For the meaning of revelation is that what is revealed is true, and must be borne.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
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