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“You know what it is to be in love with a woman; you know how short the days are, and with what amorous indolence one passes from one day to the next. You are not unaware of the obliviousness to all other things that accompanies the birth of a strong, confident, shared passion. Any creature who is not the woman you love seems to you an entirely pointless being.“

"Either I would not accept you, in which case you would resent me, or I would accept you, in which case you would find yourself stuck with an unfortunate mistress—a neurotic woman who's either ill and sad, or else is lighthearted with a lightheartedness that is sadder than heartbreak ❤️‍🩹

“I am also disturbed to find he values my mind and abilities more highly than my heart, which is my only source of pride, and indeed of everything, all my strength and happiness and misery. The things I know, anyone can know-but my heart is mine and mine alone.”

“It is good that my heart can feel the simple and innocent pleasure a man knows when the cabbage he eats at table is one he grew himself; the pleasure he takes not only in eating the cabbage but in remembering all those good days, the fine morning he planted it, the mellow evenings he watered it and the delight he felt in its daily growth”

Onto part 4. I’m not ready to finish book 🙁

“She stepped down from the chair and looked into my eyes with a look so sweet and clear that my heart missed a beat”

“For me brought up as I had been a solitary boy in the sober atmosphere of a staid country house all this noise and excitement this uncontrolled gaiety the queer new terms on which I found myself with these strangers all went straight to my head. I felt intoxicated, it was like a strong wine.”

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What a page…….. 🥲

“Ever since boyhood, I’d feared wasting any happiness that came my way; I’d always wanted to save some of it for later”

Same Raif