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I am not one of those women who can stand things.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

William Faulkner
Loneliness
William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

William Faulkner
Lonely, Loneliness, Spring

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.

William Faulkner
Loneliness, Opportunity, Silence
William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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