# Half a Life

- Author: [V. S. Naipaul](https://www.leafyquotes.com/v-s-naipaul.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/v-s-naipaul/half-a-life

## Quotes

> Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

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> I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.

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> Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone.

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> I thought how terrible it would have been if, as could so easily have happened, I had died without knowing this depth of satisfaction, this other person that I had just discovered within myself. It was worth any price, any consequence.

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> And whenever I saw Luis, Graça's husband, I dealt with him with a friendship that was quite genuine, since it was offered out of gratitude for Graça's love.

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