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Women with small children always appeared to me to be middle-aged when I was a child,while the cinema was the world of eternal youth.I learned,when I grew older,that eternal youth is too precious a delusion to be relinquished:it has to find a place somewhere,be enshrined in a myth,an ideal,even a fantasy.引自 TWO THREEIt embarrassed me now to look back on my passion for Owen.Probably all love affairs,when they are over,evoke a very slight reaction of impatience,distaste.What I felt then could not be captured in words,certainly not at this distance.引自 TWO SIXBut love of this calibre is not easy to sustain or to prolong,largely because it is unrealistic.引自 TWO SEVENMrs Wilberforce confined herself to the most general of remarks and was thus extremely easy to get along with.引自 TWO TENSeasons changed,years melted into one another.引自 TWO ELVENThe grudge that women feel against their lovers is really a desire to be taken seriously,and a suspicion that they have passed into the realm of familiar things,on which no great thoughts need be expended.引自 TWO THIRTEENIn truth,I thought he was impossible,but he amused me into thinking fresh thoughts.An original man is a rare and valuable thing,and as I get older I appreciate humour more than the kind of seriousness that usually attends these affairs.It now strikes me that seriousness is misplaced,that it is all a joke,a sport of the gods,that eventually wears out and fades away.Sometimes not even a memory is left.引自 TWO
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