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“Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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