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He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. S...more

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She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.

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This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, be...more

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You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be loved in its particularity, not its generali...more

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But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live...more

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Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].