“Ce moment avait été imaginé et désiré depuis trop longtemps pour être à leur mesure.”
Atonement
Ian McEwan 14
écrivain britannique 1948Citations similaires

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Variante: Etre aimé n'est rien, c'est être préféré que je désire.

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It would be impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation, though, was a luxury I could never afford. On the physical level I was too feeble. On any other I was not rich enough. I never dared to be rude to anyone. I never knew that I might not need him later. Long after fantasies of sexual excess had ceased to torment me, my imagination was inflamed by lurid day-dreams of having my revenge on the world.
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