A MAN IN LOVE The below interesting and perhaps accurate remark is from a novel I’m reading, Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant, published in France 1885, translated by Douglas Parmée. The speaker is Madame Forestier, who says: “My dear Monsieur Duroy, for me a man in love no longer exists. He becomes an idiot and a dangerous idiot at that. I stop having any close relationship with men who love me or claim to, first because they bore me and secondly because I feel as suspicious of them as I would of a mad dog that may suddenly have a fit. So I put them in quarantine until they’ve got over their attack. Don’t forget that. I know perfectly well that for you love is merely a sort of appetite whereas for me it would be more a sort of… of … of communion of souls which doesn’t exist in a male’s religion.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:08:43 +0000
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