“If I should cease to think of you at all for a prescribed time, I should find I could keep it up indefinitely. […] You know that what you ask is impossible […] I'm capable of nothing with regard to you," he went on, "but just of being infernally in love with you. If one's strong one loves only the more strongly.”

— Henry James , book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XVI.

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American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916

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