How alleviate the pain of a love that mistook a simulated love for a true
one?
A simulated love is a contradiction in terms.
Either one loves or one does not, that is the conclusion of the whole
matter.
* * *
Love would rather suffer than forget.
Love would give the world to be able to exculpate a languid lover.
A passionate love is perhaps always poignant.
Love disdains pity.
A wounded love carries a scar to the grave.
* * *
In love, when honor is lost, loss of shame soon follows. Then indeed the
downward patch becomes precipitous.
* * *
To some, love never comes; to some, it comes too often; but the same love
never recurs, as never a bud opens twice: happy he or she is who gains
bud, blossom, and fruit. Since
The sweetest love is that wherein the odorous flower of passion ripens
into the nourishing fruitage of affection. But