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"You look at love, and especially woman," she began, "as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully.
“How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
― The Cuckoo's Calling
“Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]”
― NW
― NW
“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“He was discovering that being in love was not a steady state, but a matter of fresh surges or waves, and he was experiencing one now.”
― On Chesil Beach
― On Chesil Beach
“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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