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“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”
― Vile Bodies
― Vile Bodies
“How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”
― Lady Oracle
― Lady Oracle
“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
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“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
“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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