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177 STRAIT IS THE GATE

and our love would have been easy . . . but what sense was there in persisting in a love without object? This was to be obstinate not to be faithful. Faithful to what? To a delusion. Was it not wiser to admit to myself that I had been mistaken? In the meantime I had been offered a place in the School of Athens; I agreed to take it up at once, with no feeling of either ambition or pleasure, but welcoming the idea of departure as though it had been an escape.

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