She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
("The Sound and the Fury")
More Quotes from William Faulkner:
It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.William Faulkner
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The arrow increased without motion, then in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut.
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The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
William Faulkner
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