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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 star-crossed-lovers the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch in-another-life 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 what-if the-sense-of-an-ending julian-barnes regret sad | Julian Barnes |