“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”
Source: A New Path to the Waterfall
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