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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.

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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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