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Or is it the small defeats that we can't get over? ...The big early defeats change the course of our lives. The small ones don't change us, but they stay with us and torment us, little thorns in our side.

Paintings halt the march of time. I had you painted back then so you would stay young and I with you. Gundlach

You had a steady life. Mine feels like a vase that fell to the floor and shattered into pieces. (Hardening back to earlier description of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase as 'a cubist figure, breaking up in the moment of descent') pg 85

A woman's third stupid role, after the trophy and the muse, is the damsel in distress who must be rescued by the prince.

As if I would still be the same person I was back then, when we sat on a bench together. Is that how it is with things that don't quite come to an end?

Now, even the simple act of reading awoke a yearning for a different life, in a different world.

Two men have got into a mess and want to sort it out, and whether they succeed depends on the woman.

The opposite of good is not evil, but good intentions.

...people who find novels more colourful than history are not taxing their imagination...Tragedies and comedies, good and bad luck, love and hate, joy and grief - history offers it all. Novels can't offer more.