I drag around as much emotional baggage as everyone else, maybe more. The trick to getting on with things is to make sure that those bags are on wheels. The right work helps too. Everyone should have at least one magnificent obsession. It's a life jacket when the ship goes down. I don't expect anyone to handle my heavy baggage for me.

Pain is usually an excellent teacher. It is fortunate for the human race that most romantic lessons don't stick. Without this amnesia no one would ever love more than once. Certainly, one would never marry a second time.

A quote form Ninon De La Makes complete sense.

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"women have always refused to recognize what most marriages are. Wife's are slaves to their husbands. Even a convent seemed better to me. I'm not saying we should not love - to fight against natures passion is to invite a life long torture. Yet, a woman must consider carefully before she sets a legal seal on her deeper emotions. Passion is fleeting, marriage is not."

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And what about passion? Generally speaking, I don't mind desire, suggesting a course of action. But I have refused in these last few months to be ordered around by it. My heart and soul have greater needs, and most people don't seem worthwhile.

But there is one thing rarer than a first edition of La Coquette Vengee? True desire is what is rarer!

Not the simple kind where you can satisfy the physical longing with any non repulsive person. I'm talking about passion. A specific, complicated, dangerous and insane desire.