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她离开屋子以后，我无法安下心来工作：我会把我们对彼此说过的话在心里重温一遍，我会煽起自己心里的怒火或者悔恨。那段时间里，我始终很清楚的一点就是：自己正在加紧步伐把对方拖垮。自己正在一点、一点地把我唯一珍爱的东西推出自己的生活。只要能自欺欺人地相信爱情会维持下去，我就感到很快乐——我甚至认为我这个人很好相处，所以爱情才得以维系下来。不过如果爱情注定要毁灭的话，我倒很想让它快快毁灭，就好像我们的爱情是一只落入陷阱、身上流血快要死去的小动物一样：我得闭上眼睛，扭断它的脖子才行。

When she left the house I couldn’t settle to work: I would reconstruct what we had said to each other: I would fan myself into anger or remorse. And all the time I knew I was forcing the pace. I was pushing, pushing the only thing I loved out of my life. As long as I could make-believe that love lasted, I was happy - I think I was even good to live with, and so love did last. But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

格雷厄姆·格林(Graham Greene)

《恋情的终结》(The End of the Affair)

译者: 柯平｜江苏凤凰文艺出版社 source

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她离开屋子以后，我无法安下心来工作：我会把我们对彼此说过的话在心里重温一遍，我会煽起自己心里的怒火或者悔恨。那段时间里，我始终很清楚的一点就是：自己正在加紧步伐把对方拖垮。自己正在一点、一点地把我唯一珍爱的东西推出自己的生活。只要能自欺欺人地相信爱情会维持下去，我就感到很快乐——我甚至认为我这个人很好相处，所以爱情才得以维系下来。不过如果爱情注定要毁灭的话，我倒很想让它快快毁灭，就好像我们的爱情是一只落入陷阱、身上流血快要死去的小动物一样：我得闭上眼睛，扭断它的脖子才行。

When she left the house I couldn’t settle to work: I would reconstruct what we had said to each other: I would fan myself into anger or remorse. And all the time I knew I was forcing the pace. I was pushing, pushing the only thing I loved out of my life. As long as I could make-believe that love lasted, I was happy - I think I was even good to live with, and so love did last. But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

格雷厄姆·格林(Graham Greene)

《恋情的终结》(The End of the Affair)

译者: 柯平｜江苏凤凰文艺出版社 source

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