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"...for aren't lovers nearly always innocent? They have committed no crime, they are certain in their own minds that they have done no wrong, 'as long as no one but myself is hurt', the old tag is ready on their lips, and love, of course, excuses everything – so they believe, and so I used to believe in the days when I loved."
— Feb 19, 2026 08:32AM
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Connie
is on page 202 of 224
He said gloomily, 'I don't know what to believe.'
'Nothing. Surely that was the point.'
— Feb 25, 2026 11:47AM
'Nothing. Surely that was the point.'
Connie
is on page 197 of 224
'St Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist. I don't know that we can understand time any better than a child.'
— Feb 25, 2026 11:36AM
Connie
is on page 189 of 224
"We were both happy with only ten years and a few counties between us, who were later to come together for no apparent purpose but to give each other so much pain."
— Feb 25, 2026 11:28AM
Connie
is on page 182 of 224
"In the picture she looked younger and happier, but not more lovely than in the years I had known her. I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress."
— Feb 25, 2026 11:21AM
Connie
is on page 173 of 224
"My hatred could believe in her survival: it was only my love that knew she existed no more than a dead bird."
— Feb 25, 2026 11:06AM
