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I carry away the impression of an extremely scrupulous man, troubled to the depths of his soul, who wanted to serve a great cause and no longer knows how.
“But so uncaring is life against the man who has killed a child that everything after is too late.”
― Att döda ett barn
― Att döda ett barn
“Once, when I was slicing bread, my knife slipped; instantly, I remembered how in the morning she used to cut thin slices of bread and pour warm milk on them for the children.”
― A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
― A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
“It gave him an intense sense of power to know that he could by a single act of consent, in a moment of thought, undo all that he had done. He seemed to feel a flood slowly advancing towards his naked feet and to be waiting for the first faint timid noiseless wavelet to touch his fevered skin. Then, almost at the instant of that touch, almost at the verge of sinful consent, he found himself standing far away from the flood upon a dry shore, saved by a sudden act of the will or a sudden ejaculation. And,”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“While desire focuses on the other, always in a somewhat fetishist manner, on a particular object, like breasts, buttocks and cock...love focuses on the very being of the other, on the other as it has erupted, fully armed with its being, into my life thus disrupted and re-fashioned”
― In Praise of Love
― In Praise of Love
“For so uncaring is life constructed that a minute before a happy man kills a child he is still happy and a minute before a woman screams with fear she can close her eyes and dream of the sea and the last minute of a child's life this child's parents can sit in the kitchen and wait for sugar and speak of their child's white teeth and about a rowing boat and the child itself can close a gate and start walking across a road with a few lumps of sugar wrapped in white paper in its right hand and this entire last minute nothing see except a long, shiny river and a broad boat with silent oars.”
― Att döda ett barn
― Att döda ett barn
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