“We are all worthy of one another.”
― The Known World
― The Known World
“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
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