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  1. 'What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually- our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'l…
  2. This is the worst of love, this unmeant mystification - someone smiling and going out without saying where, or a letter arriving, being rea…
  3. And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding t…
  4. It is a wary business, walking about a strange house you are to know well. Only cats and dogs with their more expressive bodies enact the t…
  5. Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
  6. Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk, without loss of esteem.
  7. when you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out

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