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" She could not really go until she could feel that her loss would be important. Perhaps if she had been totally convinced that I would be properly broken hearted she might have been able to end the affair with less than the difficulty it ultimately cost us. The portrait I drew of myself was always unflattering (but was it really unflattering? Wasn't it, actually, by insisting so on my inaccessibility making myself more attractive?) "

Alfred Hayes , In Love


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Alfred Hayes quote : She could not really go until she could feel that her loss would be important. Perhaps if she had been totally convinced that I would be properly broken hearted she might have been able to end the affair with less than the difficulty it ultimately cost us. The portrait I drew of myself was always unflattering (but was it really unflattering? Wasn't it, actually, by insisting so on my inaccessibility making myself more attractive?)