Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
Honore de BalzacThe woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
Honore de Balzac