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M. I__e never really thought of M objectively before, as another person. She__ always been my mother I__e hated or been ashamed of. Yet of all the lame ducks I__e met or heard of, she__ the lamest. I__e never given her enough sympathy. I haven__ given her this last year (since I left home) one half of the consideration I__e given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week. I feel that I could overwhelm her with love now. Because I haven__ felt so sorry for her for years. I__e always excused myself____e said, I__ kind and tolerant with everyone else, she__ the one person I can__ be like that with, and there has to be an exception to the general rule. So it doesn__ matter. But of course that__ wrong. She__ the last person that should be an exception to the general rule.Minny and I have so often despised D for putting up with her. We ought to go down onour knees to him.
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M. I__e never really thought of M objectively before, as another person. She__ always been my mother I__e hated or been ashamed of. Yet of all the lame ducks I__e met or heard of, she__ the lamest. I__e never given her enough sympathy. I haven__ given her this last year (since I left home) one half of the consideration I__e given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week. I feel that I could overwhelm her with love now. Because I haven__ felt so sorry for her for years. I__e always excused myself____e said, I__ kind and tolerant with everyone else, she__ the one person I can__ be like that with, and there has to be an exception to the general rule. So it doesn__ matter. But of course that__ wrong. She__ the last person that should be an exception to the general rule.Minny and I have so often despised D for putting up with her. We ought to go down onour knees to him.

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The river of life, of mysterious laws and mysterious choice, flows past a deserted embankment; and along that other deserted embankment Charles now begins to pace, a man behind the invisible gun carriage on which rests his own corpse. He walks towards an imminent, self-given death? I think not; for he has at which to build; has already begun, though he would still bitterly deny it, thought there are tears in his eyes to support his denial, to realize that life, however advantageously Sarah may in some ways seem to fit the role of Sphinx, is not a symbol, is not one riddle and one failure to guess it, is not to inhabit one face alone or to be given up after one losing throw of the dice; but is to be, however inadequately, emptily, hopelessly into the city's iron heart, endured. And out again, upon the unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

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