„She [Chantal] did not understand him [Fiodor]. She never could and never would understand him, being as invulnerable in her truthfulness as he in his falseness. And yet, she hated him unconsciously with a jealous hatred — for what other name, alas, could be given to that revolt of her pure conscience, so well armed and, at the same time, so defenceless? She hated him instinctively as though he already possessed the incomparable secret with which to menace her, to menace God Himself.“

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— Georges Bernanos

Fuente: La joie (Joy) 1929, pp.48–49

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escritor francés 1888 - 1948

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— Catherine Fisher Welsh children's writer 1957

„He never had really been able to understand what it was that she wanted him for…although he felt certain that she wanted him for something real, that he filled some need for her, as she did for him, which could for lack of a more specific term be called love.“

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— Robert Silverberg American speculative fiction writer and editor 1935

Fuente: Short fiction, Against Babylon (1986), p. 276

„He could tell by the quality of her silence that she did not believe him, but if there was an advantage to being emperor, it was that she could not call him a liar to his face.“

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— Sarah Monette, libro The Goblin Emperor

Fuente: The Goblin Emperor (2014), Chapter 31, "A Conspiracy Unearthed" (p. 434)

„but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.“

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— Nicholas Sparks, libro Safe Haven

Fuente: Safe Haven

„There was a time. She could never see him and her fault was to always need him.“

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— Pete Yorn American musician 1974

So Much Work
Song lyrics

„They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.“

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— Italo Calvino Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923 - 1985

„She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.“

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— Julia Quinn American novelist 1970

Fuente: The Lost Duke of Wyndham

„No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he'd already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him— or, if so, what would happen when she did.“

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— Rachel Caine American writer 1962

„For the first few seconds, she was afraid he would throw her out because of the crude noises she was making, but then he put his arms around her. She was grateful to him for ignoring her rumbles, and she kissed him passionately, her eyes misting.“

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— Milan Kundera, libro La insoportable levedad del ser

Pg 50
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body

„He shows Himself to the soul in the living mirror of her intelligence;
Not as He is in His nature,
But in images and similitudes,
And in the degree in which the illuminated reason can grasp and understand Him.
And the wise reason, enlightened of God, sees clearly
And without error in images of the understanding
All that she has heard of God,
Of faith, of truth, according to her longing.
But that image which is God Himself,
Although it is held before her, she cannot comprehend;
For the eyes of her understanding
Must fail before that Incomparable Light.“

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— John Ruysbroeck Flemish mystic 1293 - 1381

The Twelve Beguines

„A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.“

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— Anaïs Nin, libro Under a Glass Bell

Fuente: Under a Glass Bell

„Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.“

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— Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

„Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.“

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— Thomas Hardy, libro Jude the Obscure

Pt. IV, ch. V
Jude the Obscure (1895)

„But that was only the beginning of her mortification. Harold had proved her wrong. He had seen that she was a shifty, shallow hypocrite. She had not dared to be alone with him since her exposure. She had never looked at him and had hardly spoken. He seemed cheerful, but what was he thinking? He would never forgive her.“

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— E.M. Forster English novelist 1879 - 1970

Albergo Empedocle
The Life to Come and other stories (1972)

„‎When she looked up at him, it was suddenly easy for her to imagine that her fears were pointless. That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.“

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— Nicholas Sparks, libro Safe Haven

Fuente: Safe Haven

„He said: "If I thought more of myself?"
"You wouldn't have much difficulty in finding it," she answered. "Let's walk."
He didn't understand the first phrase, but he turned and went by her side, silent while he heard the words. Much difficulty in finding what? in finding it? the it that could be found if he thought of himself more; that was what he had said or she had said, whichever had said that the thing was to be found, as if Adela had said it, Adela in her real self, by no means the self that went with Hugh; no, but the true, the true Adela who was apart and his; for that was the difficulty all the while, that she was truly his, and wouldn't be, but if he thought more of her truly being, and not of her being untruly away, on whatever way, for the way that went away was not the way she truly went, but if they did away with the way she went away, then Hugh could be untrue and she true, then he would know themselves, two, true and two, on the way he was going, and the peace in himself, and the scent of her in him, and the her, meant for him, in him; that was the she he knew, and he must think the more of himself.“

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— Charles Williams, libro Descent into Hell

Descent into Hell (1937), Ch. 5, "Return to Eden"

„His mother had been the world to him, and although she had done her best to prepare him, he had been too young to fully understand what death meant—until she was gone, and the great, raw, gaping hole in his heart could not be filled or patched or mended. He looked for her everywhere, even after he had been shown her body—looked and looked and she could not be found.“

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— Sarah Monette, libro The Goblin Emperor

Fuente: The Goblin Emperor (2014), Chapter 4, "The Funeral at the Ulimeire" (p. 48)

„She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head.“

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— Virginia Woolf, libro Al faro

Part III, Ch. 9
To the Lighthouse (1927)

„He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.“

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— Cassandra Clare American author 1973

„Like a good and happy man increasing his virtue, he kissed her. She did not move away from him. She remained in the embrace of his right arm, her face nuzzling his shoulder, her eyes closed. He tipped her chin to look and measure opportunity. She could not open her eyes. Honorably he searched, but on her face he met no quarrel.“

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— Grace Paley American writer and activist 1922 - 2007

"The Pale Pink Roast" (1959)

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