V. S. Naipaul Quote

How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2012) - ISBN: 9780330516310