Le droit de choisir was how she put it. The right to choose
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‘No, I’m quite serious. People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one’s own standards takes a certain maturity of spirit, exceptional character, truly refined taste, and—’
‘And money.’
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condemned to the Sisyphean fate
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A proximity that mimicked intimacy.
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Like a hand reaching out across the impossible distance to pierce the veil that separated them
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the delicate shades of a summer’s sky.
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Love was an art, a game teased out and manipulated by skilled players.
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listening to the ticking clock, the dull hum of the refrigerator
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Pretty girls didn’t lead independent lives; didn’t Eva d’Orsey know that? Their triumphs were measured in the swiftness with which they moved from one pair of waiting arms to another. It was the less fortunate girls – the ‘sensible’ and ‘clever’ ones – who had to face the world on their own.