Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
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Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.
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