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A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.

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He had it now, he thought. What he had been searching for till now: the heart of it, the central, engendering event.

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That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.

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Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?

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A mixture of rapture and cowardice. No action, but all that quivering!

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Fire and water and smoke and incense and chanting and bells and butter and blood: this was a language whose syllables were translated into physical terms; a language of the elements. It was a language that he hoped might speak to him one day.

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The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

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I am happy to see you, Masood.”“Happy? Happy? What a pale, pathetic English word. You must not be ‘happy’ to see me. No, you must be enraptured, transported! You must be overjoyed. I have no use for ‘happy’.

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My dear, he talked of peering into catamites’ anuses, if you can conceive of anything more wonderful.

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Race and class were a kind of destiny; very little could dent them. Morgan himself had been decanted back into the vessel that had made him.

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All have their foolishness, and this is mine.

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Other people might have to confess their sins, but he, Morgan, could only confess their absence.

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I blame it on the heat. And Morgan had gone to India, and the heat had not undone him. He had remained respectable.

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All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

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Even in one’s most physical moments, the real craving was for love.

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Why did people believe it was only the flesh that binds?

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He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

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It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

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To be honest and to be fair were not always the same thing.

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What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.

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He didn’t depend so much on the good opinion of others to feel complete. Nor did he expect happiness as his right any longer; he knew it was only for the strong.

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There were some, naturally, who would understand, and he wrote for them, or for himself. Anyhow, some idealised reader who would accept everything, and forgive.

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There was something humiliating, too, in a display of grief when the relationship had been unwitnessed. No, this was to be a private suffering, like lust or literature, lived out mostly in his dreams.

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What did love mean if it was doled out so carelessly, with no thought of consequence?

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under the elaborate filigree of language, hadn’t it always been about this deferment, this selfishness, this veil drawn over the obvious truth, which was that Masood simply did not care enough? Morgan could not look at the possibility for long, but at least he could look at it, and over the coming days he took it out and hurt himself with it at particular moments when he was alone. He had always been slow to comprehend his own feelings, and it came only gradually to him how disappointed he was.

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There was no reason why he should not lift the veil aside.Well, there was Lily. He could imagine his mother’s face if he told her he was giving up meat and alcohol and going to live off the land and make sandals. Not to mention homogenic love. The veil might be thin, but in some cases it was insurmountable.

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What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

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No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.

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The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear.

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There were only certain intimacies one could hope to survive.

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