Without me, without me,
Everyday's misery.
But with me - am I wrong?
No night is too long!
His books distracted him for a while. They were like the aspirins you take when you've got a headache. They kill the pain for two hours and then it comes back.
Barbara VineOur children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.
Barbara VineTime, the best of all doctors, though it kills you in the end, had done more than therapy could.
Barbara VineEmpty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature.
Barbara VineThe wonderful thing about the human mind is the way it copes when the worst happens. Beyond that worst happening you think there can be nothing, the unimaginable has taken place, and on the other side is death, destruction, the end. But the worst happens and you reel from it, you stagger, the shock is enormous, and then you begin to recover. You rally, you stand up and face it. You get used to it.
For what had happen was not the worst, you realize that. the worst was yet to come, was perhaps always yet to come, never would actually come, because if it did, you would know it, that would be reality, and there would be nothing then but to kill yourself. Quickly.
Evil was a stupid word. It had the same sort of sense, largely meaningless, amorphous, diffuse, wooly, as applied to "love." Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it. It seemed, in a way, to imply something supernatural.
Barbara VineLewis would have agreed with Oscar Wilde that our past is what we are. We cannot rid ourselves of it.
Barbara VineEvents in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.
Barbara VineThe safest way to live is first, inherit money, second be born without a taste for liquor, third, have a legitimate job that keeps you busy, fourth, marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities, fifth, join some big church, sixth, don't live too long.
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