“That was perhaps the only woman I have ever loved — no — that I ever should have loved. Ah, well! who can tell? Circumstances rule one. And then — and then — all passes.”
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French writer 1850–1893Related quotes

“It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVII : Misdemeanour; Arthur to Helen

In a letter to her husband Otto Modersohn, from Berlin, 4 February 1901; as quoted in Voicing our visions, -Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 201
1900 - 1905

"Love and Mushrooms," journal entry (1917), published in More Extracts from a Journal, ed. J. Middleton Murry, in The Adelphi (1923), p. 1068

April from The London Literary Gazette (5th April 1823)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”
Source: Between the Lines