“I think I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature.”
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“my qualities are so small, the same of those of other men, my flaws, my negative side is beautiful and concave like an abyss. What I am not would leave an enormous hole in the earth.”
― Near to the Wild Heart
― Near to the Wild Heart
“All of me swims, floats, crosses what exists with my nerves, I am nothing but a desire, anger, vagueness, as impalpable as energy. Energy? but where is my strength? in imprecision, in imprecision, in imprecision . .”
― Near to the Wild Heart
― Near to the Wild Heart
“It’s in this valor, human, absurd, that I see true grace.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“She wanted even more: to be reborn always, to sever everything that she had learned, that she had seen, and inaugurate herself in new terrain where every tiny act had a meaning, where the air was breathed as if for the first time.”
― Near to the Wild Heart
― Near to the Wild Heart
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