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“It was his misfortune,—and also his fault,—that he had submitted to be loved by a wild cat.”
― The Way We Live Now
― The Way We Live Now
“No woman really minds hearing of the past affairs of her lover, it is the future alone that has the power to terrify”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“I have often noticed that when women look at themselves in every reflection, and take furtive peeps into their looking-glasses, it is hardly ever, as is generally supposed, from vanity, but much more often from a feeling that all is not quite as it should be”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made in that direction by their unmarried friends.”
― The Way We Live Now
― The Way We Live Now
“Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief. There is no God; Janice can die: the two thoughts come at once, in one slow wave. He feels underwater, caught in chains of transparent slime, ghosts of the urgent ejaculations he has spat into the mild bodies of women. His fingers on his knees pick at persistent threads.”
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