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" They walk quickly along the street, side by side. They don't touch. They rarely kiss. Their bodies have nothing to say to each other. They have never felt any attraction or even tenderness for each other, and in a way this absence of carnal complicity is reassuring. As if it proves that their union is above all bodily contingencies. As if they have already mourned the loss of something that other couples part with reluctantly, amid tears and rows. "

Leïla Slimani , Adèle


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Leïla Slimani quote : They walk quickly along the street, side by side. They don't touch. They rarely kiss. Their bodies have nothing to say to each other. They have never felt any attraction or even tenderness for each other, and in a way this absence of carnal complicity is reassuring. As if it proves that their union is above all bodily contingencies. As if they have already mourned the loss of something that other couples part with reluctantly, amid tears and rows.