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‘Great thirsty heat—trembling—tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst—People are full of surprises—even for themselves, if they have been stirred enough—it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget—the madness of the denial of pain—the world—mostly divided between madmen who remember & madmen who forget. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘faint heart never won fair athlete, that’s for sure.’’
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‘My face is like a face you have seen many times—I can see her—tense—glittering—surrounded by the light which fills the salon of the ocean liner—drinking—too fast—laughing—That was how I met her—in a bar in St. Germain des Pres—she was drinking & watching, & that was why I liked her—That was how it began—And these nights—under a foreign sky—no penalties attached—Life gives these & also takes them away—across—ocean—’
— Mar 24, 2026 02:51PM
