Love and human connection

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“There was nobody. [Lucrezia’s] words faded. So a rocket fades. Its sparks, having grazed their way into the night, surrender to it, dark descends, pours over the outlines of houses and towers; bleak hillsides soften and fall in.”

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“If it were now to die ‘twere now to be most happy.”

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“[Peter] felt that he was grinding against something physically hard; [Clarissa] was unyielding. She was like iron, like flint, rigid up the backbone.”

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“Unable to get away from the thought of [Clarissa]; she kept coming back and back like a sleeper jolting against [Peter] in a railway carriage.”

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“[Lucrezia] was a flowering tree; and through her branches looked out the face of a lawgiver, who had reached a sanctuary where she feared no one.”

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“[Clarissa] had felt that intoxication of the moment, that dilatation of the nerves of the heart itself till it seemed to quiver.”

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“What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.”

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