"He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind, to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything."

Past, Freedom, Living, Detachment

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"He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind, to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything."

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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

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"A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return to his hot and squalid room and read a novel - or a poem. Wilson liked poetry, but he absorbed it secretly, like a drug. The Golden Treasury accompanied him wherever he went, but it was taken at night in small doses - a finger of Longfellow, Macaulay, Mangan: 'Go on to tell how, with genius wasted, Betrayed in friendship, befooled in love...' His taste was romantic. For public exhibition he has his Wallace. He wanted passionately to be indistinguishable on the surface from other men: he wore his moustache like a club tie - it was his highest common factor, but his eyes betrayed him - brown dog's eyes, a setter's eyes, pointing mournfully towards Bond Street."

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"I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing."

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