wanted listen him, want answer now. strange responsibility feel toward — Sebastian Barry, Secret Scripture

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I wanted to listen to him, but I did not want to answer now. That strange responsibility we feel towards others when they speak, to offer them the solace of any answer. Poor humans! And anyway he had not asked a question. He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.

Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

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