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Vita about Harold’s love for her: “To love me whatever I do. To believe my motives are not mean. Not to credit tales without hearing my own version. To give up everything and everybody for me in the last resort.”

“Trust in most marriages means fidelity. In theirs it meant that they would always tell each other of their infidelities, give warning of approaching emotional crises and, whatever happened, return to their common centre in the end.“

“My father advised me when I was about to be married, that ‘to sleep with only one person throughout your life would be like saying, “Wuthering Heights is the greatest novel in the English language, therefore I shall never read another”.’ “