Bloody chamber

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leaves ‘white enclosed quietude’ for

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‘the unguessable country of marriage’

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feels ‘pang of loss’ ‘ceased to be her child in

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becoming his wife’

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‘great pistons

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ceaselessly thrusting the train’

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‘I was 17 and knew

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nothing of the world’

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‘it must have been my innocence

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that captured him’

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‘I longed for him.

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And he disgusted me.’

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‘lovely prison of which I was both

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the inmate and the mistress.’

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‘With my stunning marriage I

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had exiled myself.’

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‘tell-tale stain’

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‘brilliance of the heart on a playing card’

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‘infinitely dishevelled

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by the loss of my virginity.’

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‘somnolent

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lilies’

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‘There is a striking resemblance between the act of love

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and the ministrations of a torturer.’

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‘face was acquiring… a lacquer of that invincible prettiness

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that characters certain pampered cats’

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‘All the natural laws of the world were

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held in suspension.’

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‘his

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pet’

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‘she could not control an

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instinctual shudder of fear.’

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‘Here trance before

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the mirror broke.’

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‘possessed by a sense of obligation

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to her father.’

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‘I could not see a single soul… since all the best religions in the world state that

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not beasts or women were quipped with them.’

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‘special madness

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strikes travellers.’

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‘heraldic

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beast’

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bought and sold,

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passed from hand to hand’

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allotted ‘only the same kind of

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imitative life amongst men’ as the automata

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‘perform the part

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of my father’s daughter’

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'white meat of

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contract'

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'The lamb must learn to run

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with the tigers.'

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she feels 'at liberty

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for the first time.'

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'His touch both consoles

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and devastates me.'

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'like a skinned

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rabbit'

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'I had no wish to join

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the whittling congregation.'

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'pelts of

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black foxes'

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'bleeds,

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screams, falls'

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'thrust his virile membrane into

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the dead girl'

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'like the trace of

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a fox's kill.'

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'he has the special quality of

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virginity'

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'to ride a bicycle is in itself

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some protection against superstitious fears.'

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'perennial sadness of a girl who is both

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death and maiden.'

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'cave full of echoes, system of repetitions,

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closed circuit.'

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'red eyes,

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grizzeled chops'

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'soon it came to snow so thickly... that any footsteps

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that might have been upon it were obscured.'

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'invisible pentacle of

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her own virginity.'

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'children do not stay young in this savage

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country for long.'

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'it is as if the fur she thought she wore had

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melted into her own skin'

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'no direct notion of past, future or of duration,

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only of a dimensionless immediate existence.'

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white dress is a sign

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'of her indifference'

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'knows no better than

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to do his chores for him.'