It was the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us.

Love was exhausted with the satisfaction of sensuality.

We stood face to face in our true light, like two egoists trying to procure the greatest possible enjoyment, like two individuals trying to mutually exploit each other.
"So what I called our quarrel was our actual situation as it appeared after the satisfaction of sensual desire.

I did not realize that this cold hostility was our normal state, and that this first quarrel would soon be drowned under a new flood of the intensest sensuality.

I thought that we had disputed with each other, and had become reconciled, and that it would not happen again.