The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitu…

Albert Camus
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The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Fall, p.67, Vintage
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