A period of intense love was followed by a long period of anger; a period of mild love induced a mild irritation.

We did not understand that this love and this hatred were two opposite faces of the same animal feeling.

To live thus would be terrible, if one understood the philosophy of it.

But we did not perceive this, we did not analyze it.

It is at once the torture and the relief of man that, when he lives irregularly, he can cherish illusions as to the miseries of his situation.