It is terrible to be an unprotected being.

Colm Tóibín

Mots clés safety security protection

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For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able to participate.

Colm Tóibín

Mots clés sadness loneliness outsider exile foreign

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But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in his room with the night coming down and a book close by and pen and paper and the knowledge that the door would remain shut until the morning came and he would ne be disturbed. The gap between these two desires filled him with sadness and awe at the mystery of the self, the mystery of having a single consciousness, knowing merely its own bare feelings and experiencing singly and alone it own pain or fear or pleasure or complacency.

Colm Tóibín

Mots clés loneliness self alone mystery

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Dreams belong to each of us alone, just as pain does.

Colm Tóibín

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