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the poet's dream as well

He continued to hope that entire possession of her would in the end subdue the violence of his feelings. But he continued to go to their rendezvous with the same uncontrollable desire and he could not get rid of the tendency to reconstruct the Ange who was daily broken into fragments. His dissatisf…

—p.205 As A Man Grows Older As a Man Grows Older (29) by Italo Svevo
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she could never give him back his youth

[...] He thought of her continually as an old man thinks of his youth. How young he had been that night when he wanted to kill her in order to calm himself! If he had written then instead of pacing about the streets like an angry lion, and afterwards tossing wearily in his bed. he would surely have…

—p.186 As a Man Grows Older (29) by Italo Svevo
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that monstrous hybrid of tiger and woman

He made an effort to profit by his newly acquired liberty. He felt that his mind had become inactive, and the idea pained him, for he remembered how years ago art had given color to his life, lifting him out of the inertia into which he had fallen after the death of his father. It was then that he …

—p.182 As a Man Grows Older (29) by Italo Svevo
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that monstrous hybrid of tiger and woman

He made an effort to profit by his newly acquired liberty. He felt that his mind had become inactive, and the idea pained him, for he remembered how years ago art had given color to his life, lifting him out of the inertia into which he had fallen after the death of his father. It was then that he …

—p.182 As a Man Grows Older (29) by Italo Svevo
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his books looked down from their shelves in vain topic/heartbreak

When he awoke he found that night was falling, one of those melancholy sunsets at the close of a lovely winter's day. He sat up on his bed. still undecided as to what he should do. Often he used to study at that hour, but now his books looked down from their shelves in vain. All those titles spoke …

—p.148 As a Man Grows Older (29) by Italo Svevo