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Nemesis

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    “Your judgment was really quite sound. It’s your sentiment that interfered.”
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    you hated that kind of competing, you said. And I thought, She doesn’t have the strength for it, that’s all.
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    Once you begin a certain action it’s necessary to complete it … bring it to an end.
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    Maggie could see that her friend’s youth had left him sometime this winter: his eyes were those of a man of middle age, and his graying-black hair, so crisply brushed back from his forehead, had begun quite visibly to recede
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    Calvin observed that it was a painful thing, a dangerous thing almost, for a pianist not to play the piano every day without fail. “It’s as if you lose touch with your very soul.”
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    And Bach was, said Calvin, for difficult phases of the soul
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    Calvin remarked that Bach had always been, for him, for the depth of winte
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    “Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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    “The ultimate appeal is to the empty blue sky. See it up there, waiting?”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted3 years ago
    Simone de Beauvoir, One is not born a woman, one becomes one
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