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There had never before been a single thing unnatural in Isaac, nor a single thing unfree—yet now his face, which had ever been whole, seemed composed of parts. There were, she now noticed, lines on either side of his mouth, and when he spoke he seemed to her like a wooden puppet with hinged jaw.
“Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind.”
Nature gave a woman not only body but also intelligence, and a wish to employ it.
desire was the only truth worth following.
A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safer pasture.
