Adultery and Other Diversions Quotes

“Tackling the steep scree as colours faded in cloud, I thought: one yearns for wholeness, yet wishes to distinguish oneself from the herd.”
― Tim Parks, Adultery and Other Diversions

“So many of our values have to do not only with not affirming our own power, I thought, but with denying the affirmation of power in general.”
― Tim Parks, Adultery and Other Diversions

“Perhaps it’s only when we set the greatest store by a seemingly trivial adventure that the metaphysical content of a certain variety of yearning becomes apparent.”
― Tim Parks, Adultery and Other Diversions

“One yearns for wholeness, yet wishes to distinguish oneself from the herd”
― Tim Parks, Adultery and Other Diversions