That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.