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“Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.”
“Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.”
“A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.”
“Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.”
“Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.”
“Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?”
“We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.”
“Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lo...”
“I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me.To want to die i...”
“For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The ver...”
