We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?
Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.