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"But how," said Charles, who was close to tears, "how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?"
Henry lit a cigarette. "I prefer to think of it," he had said, "as redistribution of matter."

"Why, we're looking for new ferns," he said, and took a step towards him.

"I mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible."

"Quite simply," he said, "we didn't believe. And belief was the one condition which was absolutely necessary. Belief, and absolute surrender."

*got up to here yesterday

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."

"And if beauty is terror," said Julian, "then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?"
"To live," said Camilla.
"To live forever," said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.