“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”
“You are not listening to me. You are making phrases about Byron. And while you gesticulate, with your cloak, your cane, I am trying to expose a secret told to nobody yet; I am asking you (as I stand with my back to you) to take my life in your hands and tell me whether I am doomed always to cause repulsion in those I love?”
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Virginia Woolf
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The Waves
Bernard, section III
The Waves (1931)
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