atonement Flashcards
1
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Atonement 1 realisation
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“it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you”
2
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atonement 2 novelist
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“No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists.”
3
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atonement 3 writing flying
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“Wasn’t writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
4
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atonement 4 drowning
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“the drowning scene, followed by a rescue, should have preceded the marriage proposal.”
5
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atonement 5 truth
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“The truth had become as ghostly as invention.”
6
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atonement 6 cost
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“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return”
7
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atonement 7 torn
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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
