“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
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