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WHAT A BOOK! Perhaps my new all time favourite book ❤️

‘ I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should’ve me alone.’

“He wanted to be near her. It was not desire, not that. It was the cruel sense of unfinished aloneness, that needed a silent woman folded in his arms. Perhaps he could find her. Perhaps he could even call her out to him: or find some way in to her. For the need was imperious. ”

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“Oh, if only there were other men to be with, to fight that sparkling electric Thing outside there,to preserve the tenderness of life, the tenderness of women, and the natural riches of desire. If only there were men to fight side by side with ! But the men were all outside there, glorying in the Thing, triumphing or being trodden down in the rush of mechanised greed or of greedy mechanism.”

"She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail parties, and jazzed, and Charlestoned till they were ready to drop. You had to take it out some way or other, your youth, or it ate you up. But what a ghastly thing, this youth!"

Love love the prose in here 🫶🏻💘