Answer:
Though I cannot slow myself down right now, one day my heart will stop beating so quickly, and I will slow down.
Explanation:
"Auspex" indicates that time destroys the heart's passions.
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead... After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
Meyer Wolfsheim
The answer is: Acceptance from loved ones helps people overcome fear.
In the excerpt from "Loneliness... an American Malady," the author Carson McCullers suggests that love makes people provide more positive answers, expand connection to others, dispose them of fear and attain happiness and audacity.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the passage expresses exactly the opposite ideas - it only describes the beneficial aspects of love rather than love in contrast to individualism.
Though he once treated Ivan as if he were almost his son, his life kind of went sour after his wife left and he grew less attached to Ivan, who was a sore spot in their marriage. These days, Mack drinks and his ethics are, well, questionable.
