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| 2 | 157 | She insisted to View more quotes about herself">herself, naturally, that she was happy, content, and had no regrets. |
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| 2 | 154 | She realized she was growing old, and was alone. |
| 2 | 155 | She was disappointed with her life. |
| 2 | 156 | And she saw nothing much before her to look forward to. |
| 2 | 157 | She insisted to herself, naturally, that she was happy, content, and had no regrets. |
| 2 | 158 | She insisted on that, angrily in her privacy drying gainsaying tears. |
| 2 | 159 | What else could she dare to say to herself? What else could such as she tell themselves, in private, grievous, insistent moments? One could scarcely acknowledge an emptiness, a whole frightening, oppressive, looming reproach on a misspent life; it was not well to look into the emptiness, the threatening abyss, the void, and, too, she assured herself, such things, the void, and such, being nothing, could not even exist. |
| 2 | 160 | And yet few things existed more obdurately, more outspokenly, more terribly, deeply within her, than that silent, vocal, unrepudiable, proclamatory, denunciatory nothingness. |