A Room with a View

I taught him," he quavered, "to trust in love. I said: 'When love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand'

It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.