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“...My husband made my dreams come true, and because he could do that I married him."

Then he says softly, as if to himself, "But what about love?"
She heard that. A slight smile comes to her lips.
"Do you still have all the ideals, all the ideals that you took to that distant world with you? Are they all still intact , or have some of them died or withered away? Haven't they been torn out of you by force and flung in the dirt, where thousands of wheels carrying vehicles to their owners' destination in life crushed them? Or have you lost none of them?”
― Stefan Zweig, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories