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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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I needed her beauty to support me topic/beauty

[...] It seemed strange to me that she had taken so much trouble. I have never seen any qualities in me for a woman to like, and now less than ever. Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. I had nothing to give Sylv…

—p.129 The End of the Affair The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene
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this dull human thing we call beauty topic/beauty

'To expect you to love a man with this.' He turned his bad cheek towards me. 'You believe in God,' he said. 'That's easy. You are beautiful. You have no complaint, but why should I love a God who gave a child this?'

'Dear Richard,' I said, 'there's nothing so very bad...' I shut my eyes and put…

—p.98 The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene
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all the emphasis on the human body topic/having-a-body

[...] When I came in and sat down and looked round I realized it was a Roman church, full of plaster statues and bad art, realistic art. I hated the statues, the crucifix, all the emphasis on the human body. I was trying to escape from the human body and all it needed. I thought I could believe in …

—p.87 The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene
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it's their pain I can't stand

Let me think of those awful spots on Richard's cheek. Let me see Henry's face with the tears falling. Let me forget me. Dear God, I've tried to love and I've made such a hash of it. If I could love you, I'd know how to love them. I believe the legend. I believe you were born. I believe you died for…

—p.96 The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene
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don't leave me, Sarah

'It has to stop sometime,' I said, 'in any marriage. We are good friends.' That was to be my escape line. When he agreed I would give him the letter, I would tell him what I was going to do, I would walk out of the house. But he missed his cue, and I'm still here, and the door has closed again agai…

—p.95 The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene