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"But I am a novelist, not a man in a garden – I can follow her where I like? But possibility is not permissibility. Husbands could often murder their wives – and the reverse – and get away with it. But they don't."

man please stop you are too cool

“I cannot say what she might’ve been in our age; in a much earlier one I believe she would have been either a saint or an emperor’s mistress. Not because of the religiosity on the one hand, or the sexuality on the other, but because of that fused rare power that was her essence — understanding and emotion.” holy shit