The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.
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You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.
Interpretation
Love is a journey that requires patience and time to develop deep connections.
This quote speaks to the nature of love as a gradual process, emphasizing that meaningful relationships take time to cultivate. The notion of waiting together signifies the mutual investment in a relationship, where shared experiences and conversations build intimacy, leading to a profound understanding of one another over an extended period.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a wedding speech highlighting the journey of love.
The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.
There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.
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