“I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.”

—  Malcolm Lowry , book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)

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