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the root of everything
Cory 2022-04-22 07:01:42
"In the novel you lent me was a bookmark with a passage on it: [A woman fantasizes about having sex with a stranger on a boat.] This sentence seems to be your confession, telling how you started your adventure. I have curiosity too, maybe everyone has it, but I will control myself for you. But can't believe you will. I agree that two people in love may not be enough! Look around us and you think it's all about rejecting hypocrisy and obeying Better, you want to create love, but pioneers need to be humble and not self-centered, no, we need to be honest with ourselves. We failed and messed things up. You want to change me, I hurt those around me to make you happy People. My promise to Jiaobei's life together has been delayed, and it has become an empty word, a lie. I want to marry her. We will have children."
Extended Reading
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Jules: The most important factor in any relationship is the woman's fidelity. The husband's is secondary. Who was it who wrote, "Woman is natural, therefore abominable?"
Jim: Baudelaire, but he was describing a certain world.
Jules: Not at all. He spoke of women in general. What he says about a young girl is magnificent: "Horror, monster, assassin of the arts, little fool, little slut. The greatest idiocy combined with the greatest depravity." Wait. I'm not finished. This is marvelous: "I'm always astonished they allow women inside churches. What could they possibly have to say to God?"
Catherine: You're both fools.
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Jim: I understand.
Catherine: I don't want to be understood. It's almost dawn.