cooperated. refused. smitten her, half love afraid, life (and seemed k — Paul Theroux, A Dead Hand: A Crime Calcutta

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I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my life (and she seemed to know this) I had not loved anyone without having been wounded. Love was power and possession, love caused pain: you were never more exposed than when you were in love, never more wounded; possession was an enslavement, something stifling.

Paul Theroux, A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

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