A quotation from Stefan Zweig’s Confusion
And so it was that the two of us, out of a shared and confused hatred, performed an act that looked like love, but while our bodies sought each other and came together we were both thinking and speaking of him all the time, of nothing but him. Sometimes what she said hurt me, and I was ashamed to be involved with what I disliked. But my body no longer obeyed my will, and instead wildly sought its own pleasure. Shuddering, I kissed the lips which were betraying the person I most loved.
—another quotation from Stefan Zweig’s Confusion, in honor of its publication day. It was reviewed last week in the blog The Mookse and the Gripes, if you are interested read it here.
