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“In the end, he remained hidden all his life. In spite of the great departure, the ambitious effort to forge a new existence, be fell back into all the same traps: shame, the impossibility of sharing a love that endures.”

“Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash.”

“… this scene not only shows a life lived outside of me. It hurtles me back to a void, to nonexistence, really, in the cruelest way.
Because it shows what is usually hidden from me.

I discover for the first time—poor idiot—this stabbing pain of love.”

“If it isn't talked about, how can one know that it really exists?”

“Silence is heavy enough to make your knees buckle. The trace of his scent, an intimate mixture of cigarettes and sweat, is the only thing that saves me.”

“He sees me in a certain way, a way he will never deviate from. In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.”

“I discover the pain of missing someone. I miss his skin, his body, which I once possessed and then had taken away from me. It must be given back under threat of madness.”

“Nothing touches me more than cracks in the armor and the person who reveals them.”

“I am acutely aware of the impossibility. Difficulty, you can cope with; you can deploy ruses, try to seduce. There is beauty in the hope of conquest. But impossibility, by nature, carries with it a sense of defeat.”

“This feeling of love, it transports me, it makes me happy. At the same time, it consumes me and makes me miserable, the way all impossible loves are miserable.”