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“If we are to be friends,” Herman said, “you must not say such things to me. You know that I love you, and you cannot toy with my affections. I will go mad.”
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“I know that you are unlike anyone I have ever met. When I am around you, I feel at liberty to express myself completely as I see fit, beacause I am quite sure you will understand me. It’s a freedom I have longed for, but I also know that what you want from me, I cannot give.”
― Mark Beauregard

“Hope is the best name in the world, because it is the best quality of the human mind.”
“Is it?”
“For me, it is. It’s all I have.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“[...] wouldn’t it be a relief to know all the answers, so as not to have to write stories about the questions ?
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“How can one decide, with the mind, whom to love? And if the lover hasn’t decide love, then it must be inspired by some other agency [...]”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“He had never heard the term absolute love before. Unconditional love, yes – an equally impossible concept – but absolute? He turned it over his mind: it seemed more aggressive than grace, more demanding than acceptance, the complete opposite of resignation, something austere and grand – even literary.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story