
“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”
Bernard, section III
The Waves (1931)
“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”
Quote from her letter to her friend Mallarmé, 14 July 1891; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, ed. Denis Rouart; Camden, London 1986 / Kinston, R. I. Moyer Bell, 1989, p. 160
1881 - 1895