"Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined."

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Source : "The Towers of Trebizond". Book by Rose Macaulay, 1956.

Rose Macaulay

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