I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

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She always wanted to believe in things.

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The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

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You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

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The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

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What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

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I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

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