One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Elizabeth Bowen
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  5. And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and...

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