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“I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was.”

“This was not the garbage of Paris, which would have been anonymous: this was Giovanni’s regurgitated life.”

“Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road - and the road has a truck of being most dark, most treacherous, when it seems most bright…”

“People who believe that they are strong-willed and masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”

“I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.”