“I wake to a darkness in which I must follow myself endlessly, hating the I who so eternally pursues and confronts me. If we could rise from our misery, seek each other once more, and find again the solace of each other’s lips and eyes.”

—  Malcolm Lowry, book Under the Volcano

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

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