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It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.
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love
the-collector
john-fowles
despair
obsession
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c1359fe
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She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands. 'You're being very silent.' 'That's how men cry.
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silence
men
john-fowles
silent
cry
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842b28f
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We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.
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inspirational
older
john-fowles
lazy
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3ff2978
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Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.
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sleep
loneliness
love
john-fowles
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