# Quote — V. S. Naipaul, Half a Life

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

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