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| 39eda6c | And I thought, rolling my head to and fro between my hands in anguish, oh if only it could have worked somehow for us two. | if-only in-another-life iris-murdoch star-crossed-lovers the-sea-the-sea unrequited-love | Iris Murdoch | |
| 369b352 | If Tony hadn't been fearful, hadn't counted on the approval of others for his own self-approval . . . and so on, through a succession of hypotheticals leading to the final one: so, for instance, if Tony hadn't been Tony. | in-another-life julian-barnes regret sad the-sense-of-an-ending what-if | Julian Barnes |