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  • You lost yourability for doing things in childhood† It all beganwithyourinability toputonyoursocksand ended by your inability to live.

    - Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
      Oblomov, pt.4, ch.2 (translated by David Magarshak).

  • It seems that the historic inability in Britain to comprehend Irish feelings and sensitivities still remains.

    - CharlesJames Haughey
      In the Observer, Feb.

  • Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death Percivalothers through sheer inability to cross the street.

    - (Adeline) Virginia ne  e Stephen Woolf
    TheWaves.

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