She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love. - William Faulkner
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
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William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He was regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to.
He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.
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