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... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute m...more

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This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she did not pass through those abnormal hours in whic...more

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He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having fei...more

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Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as t...more

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Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring in Botticelli's Life of Moses, he woul...more

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I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

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There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.