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“They remembered only the feeling which is the meaning of spring … not to grass, trees and sky, but to the great sense of beginning, of triumphant progression, of certainty in an achievement that nothing will stop … from wooden scaffoldings, from steam shovels, from blocks of stone and sheets of glass rising out of the earth they received the sense of youth, motion, purpose, fulfillment.”

283-288 such great tactical banter between toohey and Dominique

One of the most underratedly, unobvious intimate scenes I’ve ever read. I love this book!!

This sums it up so far…
“ I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”
“You call that freedom?”
“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

Really reminds me of My Year of Rest and Relaxation the way Selin is so lost and the days her existence blur together.