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They had seen things no human eyes had looked on before, and they had not turned their gaze away. They were in their own view a formidable group of men. No inferno would now melt them, no storm destroy, because they had seen the worst and they had survived.
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Names came pattering into the dusk, bodying out the places of their forebears, the villages and towns where the telegrams would be delivered, the houses where the blinds would be drawn, where low moans would come in the afternoon behind closed doors; and the places that had borne them, which would be like nunneries, like dead towns without their life or purpose, without the sound of fathers and their children, without young men at the facto..
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There is only one life; it is therefore perfect.
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The partition between love and anger is thin. I suppose it's a need to protect the self from further wounding that makes people scream at the one they love.
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anger-and-love
relationships
love
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