quotes from "A Story of Rats" in The Impossible, written by Georges Bataille

"My solitude demoralizes me.

A telephone call from B. forewarns me: I doubt that I shall see her again for a long time.
And "man alone " is damned.

B. and A. live alone, rather willingly. A. in a religious order, B. with her family-however insidious their relations may be with that order, that family.
I shiver with cold. Sudden, unexpected, B. 's departure disheartens me."