“Every love story is a potential grief story.”
Julian Barnes (1946) English writer
Source: Levels of Life
“Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him
And every shame, every grief, every love.”
"City of My Youth" (1984)
Context: Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him
And every shame, every grief, every love.
If ever we accede to enlightenment,
He thought, it is in one compassionate moment
When what separated them from me vanishes
And a shower of drops from a bunch of lilacs
Pours on my face, and hers, and his, at the same time.
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