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5 months, 1 week ago

love has many faces topic/love

AS LONG AS I LIVED ON THE ISLAND, I KEPT THINKING that I would be able to break through the isolation and find him on the other side.

We recognized so much in each other. Perhaps we were too much alike.

Sometimes he said that we were.

I used to dream about a great togetherness and was sure…

—p.136 Changing by Liv Ullmann
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you cannot imagine how much we hoped in the beginning

When the final separation came, we didn’t talk about it. We pretended that it had no meaning when I packed all my clothes. Just a short visit to Norway.

Linn’s things were left behind. Those I didn’t dare touch— it would have been too obvious, too final.

I didn’t look back as the car drove a…

—p.135 by Liv Ullmann
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on an intimate footing with half of Scandinavia

WHAT IS THERE TO TELL ABOUT THE ACTUAL DEPARTURE?

The publicity around the private grief? The newspapers that pushed into our lives. Stomped on what was painful. Magazines with cover pictures from our first times together. Smiling and happy faces with black captions: “HIS NEW LIFE WITHOUT LIV. R…

—p.133 by Liv Ullmann
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she discovered to her surprise that this was love topic/love

IT IS A SHORT LOVE STORY THAT RESEMBLES SO MANY others.

It lasted five years.

When she had lived with him for a few years she began to observe him. She would sit quietly and experience him as an individual.

One who no longer existed only in relation to her.

Gradually, within her an unde…

—p.130 by Liv Ullmann
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the first woman on earth who loved

Now the three of us were making Persona on Faro.

Bibi had a premonition of what would happen, and she spoke to me sternly but completely in vain. I looked at her from the distant heaven where I resided in my capacity as the first woman on earth who loved and was loved.

In the evenings we took…

—p.115 by Liv Ullmann