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it brought home to me how much of what was beautiful in their lives was the result of a shared vision of things that strictly speaking could not have been said to exist

to believe that life was only expansive, and broke the successive vessels in which you tried to contain it in its need to expand more.. life had responded willingly to them, had treated them abundantly, and this - he now saw - was what had given him the confidence to break it all, break it with what now seemed to him to be an extraordinary causality, because he thought there would be more.. more life, more affection

it was impossible, i said in response to his question, to give the reasons why the marriage had ended: among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious

when the recorded voice came to the part about the oxygen masks, the hush remained unbroken: no one protested, or spoke up to disagree with this commandment that one should take care of others only after taking care of oneself. yet i wasn't sure it was altogether true