![]() At table I have seen a water-melon become conscious under his gaze so that it felt the seeds inside it stirring with life."Īrabic proverb: "The world is like a cucumber - today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your arse." ![]() The only response to life is "ironic tenderness and silence". "Our friendship had ripened to a point where we had already become in a way part-owners of each other." You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature." "It is idle to go over all this in a medium as unstable as words."Ĭlea: "There are only three things to be done with a woman. "A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants". "What I most need to do is to record experiences, not in the order in which they took place- for that is history - but in the order in which they first become significant for me." It's tale of memory, of love, and the fallibility of humankind. The characters who spiral around this pair are all of them fascinating, multi-faceted, and hopelessly lost. ![]() Set in Alexandria and Greece throughout the 1930s and 1940s, the Quartet is the story of an impoverished British writer, Darley, and his love for the married, ambiguous Justine. ![]() Here instead, I offer a collection of quotes from the books, a 'commonplace book' if you will. To hell with reviews! Who needs 'em! I have written eloquently (if, in retrospect naively) about these books in the individual volumes. ![]()
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