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I’d screwed without any fripperies, coolly, in order to leave in us a large residue of sexual restlessness but with the burr of immediate physical restlessness in me removed

Her willed softness, her inner seriousness or earnestness, her strength, her beauty, muted and careful now in her anxiety not to lose me yet, made the pleasure of being with her noble, contrapuntal, and difficult in that one had to live up to it and understand it and protect it

the air was plangent

She had a great desire not to trouble or be troubled by supernumeraries and strangers.

The nacreous layers that formed around the events in one's history to smoothe, distinguish, and beautify them