Quote by Angela Carter
You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
Summary
The quote highlights the narrator's state of being deeply in love, resulting in suffering. It emphasizes how their understanding of the person they love was limited by their own perspective. They knew this person intimately, but only in terms of how they related to themselves. Therefore, their knowledge of this individual was not fully independent and might have been subjective, as it was influenced by their own desires, experiences, and perceptions.