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Philippe Besson Quote: “I am taken aback by this excess precaution; in another context I would have found it ridiculous. But I understand the fear and panic he carries with him. I know how strong this fear is and also that it can’t only be fear of being caught. It’s a fear of himself too. A fear of what he is.”

51. “I am taken aback by this excess precaution; in another context I would have found it ridiculous. But I understand the fear and panic he carries with him. I know how strong this fear is and also that it can’t only be fear of being caught. It’s a fear of himself too. A fear of what he is.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “One of my lifelong regrets is that I was not beautiful, and what is more, that I turned for love to those who could not but reject me.”

52. “One of my lifelong regrets is that I was not beautiful, and what is more, that I turned for love to those who could not but reject me.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “While the credits roll he says: That scene with the chain saw was great, wasn’t it? I look at him and joke: Yeah, I almost grabbed you at that moment. He smiles back at me and I receive his smile like a gift. There weren’t many times Thomas smiled at me like that. It wasn’t his way.”

53. “While the credits roll he says: That scene with the chain saw was great, wasn’t it? I look at him and joke: Yeah, I almost grabbed you at that moment. He smiles back at me and I receive his smile like a gift. There weren’t many times Thomas smiled at me like that. It wasn’t his way.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “It was at the end of the day, at twilight – the hour we call “between a dog and a wolf.”

54. “It was at the end of the day, at twilight – the hour we call “between a dog and a wolf.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “I need to say everything before I die, I cannot die carrying this secret, this amazing secret.”

55. “I need to say everything before I die, I cannot die carrying this secret, this amazing secret.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “You must have liked him a lot, to look at me like that.”

56. “You must have liked him a lot, to look at me like that.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “I listen to you, but all I want to remember is your skin, your smell, the life that pulses within you.”

57. “I listen to you, but all I want to remember is your skin, your smell, the life that pulses within you.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “I did not understand then that the bac was the end of us.”

58. “I did not understand then that the bac was the end of us.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “I suck cocks, what else do you want to know?”

59. “I suck cocks, what else do you want to know?”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “If I shut up, it’s just to avoid being confronted by violence. Is it cowardice? Perhaps. I prefer to see it as a kind of necessary self-protection. But I will never change. I will never think: It’s bad, or It would be better to be like everyone else, or I will lie to them so that they’ll accept me. Never. I stick to who I am. In silence, of course, but it’s a proud, stubborn silence.”

60. “If I shut up, it’s just to avoid being confronted by violence. Is it cowardice? Perhaps. I prefer to see it as a kind of necessary self-protection. But I will never change. I will never think: It’s bad, or It would be better to be like everyone else, or I will lie to them so that they’ll accept me. Never. I stick to who I am. In silence, of course, but it’s a proud, stubborn silence.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “I think: In the end, he remained hidden all his life. In spite of the great departure, the ambitious effort to forge a new existence, he fell back into all the same traps: shame, the impossibility of sharing a love that endures.”

61. “I think: In the end, he remained hidden all his life. In spite of the great departure, the ambitious effort to forge a new existence, he fell back into all the same traps: shame, the impossibility of sharing a love that endures.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “I add: It was then that we lost touch, he and I. These last words are articulated with the least possible affect, as if life is just like that sometimes, you spend time together and then lose touch and life goes on – as if there were no breaks from which you never quite recover.”

62. “I add: It was then that we lost touch, he and I. These last words are articulated with the least possible affect, as if life is just like that sometimes, you spend time together and then lose touch and life goes on – as if there were no breaks from which you never quite recover.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don’t see anyone but you and you don’t even realize it. He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay.”

63. “He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don’t see anyone but you and you don’t even realize it. He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “You can never really let go of your childhood. Especially when it was happy.”

64. “You can never really let go of your childhood. Especially when it was happy.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “I must remember the awkwardness, too, the botched gestures, the abruptness, the missed beats, because these too are signs of love.”

65. “I must remember the awkwardness, too, the botched gestures, the abruptness, the missed beats, because these too are signs of love.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “And then, he asks me to take him. He says the words, without shame, without ordering me to either. I obey him, though I’m afraid. I know that it can hurt if the other person doesn’t know how to do it, that the body can resist.”

66. “And then, he asks me to take him. He says the words, without shame, without ordering me to either. I obey him, though I’m afraid. I know that it can hurt if the other person doesn’t know how to do it, that the body can resist.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “I realize that this is what it means to be lovers: using the same words to speak of the same things though one has never heard the other use them; these random similarities, this remarkable intimacy.”

67. “I realize that this is what it means to be lovers: using the same words to speak of the same things though one has never heard the other use them; these random similarities, this remarkable intimacy.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “He’s surprised: But how do you know it? I say: It’s on the way to Santiago de Compostela. He asks if I’ve never been there. I tell him no, never, but I read about it in a book and remembered it. He makes fun of me, saying: I was sure you were a boy like that, one who knows things just because you read it in a book. He then becomes despondent and adds: But what’s worse is that if someone asked both of us, I’m pretty sure you would be able to talk about it way better than I could.”

68. “He’s surprised: But how do you know it? I say: It’s on the way to Santiago de Compostela. He asks if I’ve never been there. I tell him no, never, but I read about it in a book and remembered it. He makes fun of me, saying: I was sure you were a boy like that, one who knows things just because you read it in a book. He then becomes despondent and adds: But what’s worse is that if someone asked both of us, I’m pretty sure you would be able to talk about it way better than I could.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “He tells me something I did not know: that I will leave.”

69. “He tells me something I did not know: that I will leave.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “What one believes when one is sixteen is more powerful than any truth.”

70. “What one believes when one is sixteen is more powerful than any truth.”

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Philippe Besson Quote: “Porque admiro a aquellos que no ejercen el poder del que disponen.”

71. “Porque admiro a aquellos que no ejercen el poder del que disponen.”

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