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Shirley Hazzard _ The Transit of Venus
That alas is the way it goes"; "Something we must rectify." Paul, not Caro, would interpret the degree of meaning in their respective lots. That had been decided, as he sat speaking intimately of his life to the person most excluded from it - in order to readmit her to the intimacy, though not the life.
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Shirley Hazzard _ The Transit of Venus
She was coming to look on men and women as fellow survivors; well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or just put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. But all, involuntarily, became part of a deeper assertion to life. Though the dissolution of love created no heroes, the process itself required some heroism. There was the risk that endurance might appear enough of an achievement. That risk had come up before.
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Shirley Hazzard _ The Transit of Venus
Caro sat without speaking, turning toward him her look that was neither sullen nor expectant but soberly attentive; and, once, a glance in which tenderness and apprehension were great and indivisible, giving unbearable, excessive immediacy to the living of these moments. Paul had seen that look before, when they first lay down together at the inn beyond Avebury Circle.
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Shirley Hazzard _ The Transit of Venus
Did you love Paul Ivory?""Yes.""I suppose it ended badly.""Yes.""You must have been very unhappy.""I died, and Adam resurrected me.
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Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses
Nothing, Ismet thought, makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get a taste for it they take to it like drink. They claim to be impulsive, but they're the most bureaucratic of all, whatever they say.
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Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses
Although exalted in Organizational rank, they were not remarkable men. First-class minds, being interested in the truth, tend to select other first-class minds as companions. Second-class minds, on the other hand, being interested in themselves, will select third-class comrades in order to maintain the illusion of superiority.
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Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses
He worked in Interim Reports, before being upgraded to Annual Reports.
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Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses
Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.
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Shirley Hazzard _ People in Glass Houses
Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.
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Shirley Hazzard _ The Transit of Venus
I have never suffered greatly ... If you can reach fifty without a catastrophe, you've won. You've got away with it.
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Shirley Hazzard _ Cliffs of Fall and Other
She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it." "
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Shirley Hazzard _ The Great Fire
Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was; to shed assumptions, even certainties.
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