Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is… — Margaret Drabble · Skopia

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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

1963

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Drabble, Margaret. A Summer Bird-Cage. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963, ch. 7.

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