Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what… - Margaret Drabble

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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

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Dame Margaret Drabble DBE (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer and literary critic.

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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. - Margaret Drabble

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