At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has
lasted is the love which has everything, every failure and every
betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is
no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
-- Graham Greene
Related:
most of us learned about love the hard way. Even warnings are probably
usele for somehow, despite the severest warnings of parents and friends,
hundreds, thousands of women have forgotten themselves at the last minute
and succumbed to the lies, promises, flatteries, or mere attentions of
lusting, lovely men, landing themselves in complicated predicaments from
which some of them never recovered during their entire lives....
