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“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”

“To find out, to find out, you keep saying, as though we were accomplices in a crime. We have not committed any crime.”

“Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”

“To remember it so clearly, so painfully tonight tells me that I have never for an instant truly forgotten it.”

“And the very last night she was here, the very last time I saw her, as she was packing her bag, I told her that I had loved her once and I made myself believe it.”

“I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with. That was how it began, that was all it meant to me; I am not sure now, in spite of everything, that it ever really meant more than that to me.”