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“When we were really firing on all cylinders and were together then it really felt like no one could touch us, and that nothing else mattered. As much as I try to deflect it, play it down and be English about it, there was a very powerful romance and beauty to our friendship. At the beginning it was pure and uncomplicated; there was a chemistry. Together we were a comple unit, in each other’s company quite different from how we were with other people. […] the fact is that if that dynamic between us hadn’t existed none of this would have happened, I wouldn’t be lamenting what I lost – what we both lost – I wouldn’t be writing it all down. When we are together and we can forget about bullshit, we become two old souls, kindered spirits in seclusion. “

Carl Barât on his relation with Peter Doherty, Threepenny Memoir, 2010