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“No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.”

“She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.”

“The gloom was like a living thing; it smothered her with murky kisses.”

“…despair had taught her the fine art of squeezing blood from stones.”

“Somewhere a bell was ringing…”

“If nothing was worth living for it followed, didn’t it, that there was nothing worth dying for either.”

“…Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.”

“The seasons long for each other, like men and women, in order that they may be cured of their excesses.”