Gone With The Wind
" - How can I make you see these things, my dear? You who are so young and unthinking that you do not know what marriage means.
- I know I love you.
- Love isn't enouth to make a successful marriage when two people are as different as we are. You would want all of a man, Scarlett, his body, his heart, his soul, his thoughts. And if you did not have them, you would be miserable. And I couldn't give you all of me. I couldn't give all of me to anyone. And I would not want all of your mind and you soul. And you would be hurt, and then you would come to hate me - how bitterly! You would hate the books I read and the music I loved, because they took me away from you even for a moment. [...]
- But you said you cared.
- [...] I should not have said it, for I knew you wouldn't understand. How could I help caring for you - you who are have all the passion for life that I have not? You who can love and hate with a violence impossible to me? Why, you are as elemental as fire and wind and wild things and I..."
- I know I love you.
- Love isn't enouth to make a successful marriage when two people are as different as we are. You would want all of a man, Scarlett, his body, his heart, his soul, his thoughts. And if you did not have them, you would be miserable. And I couldn't give you all of me. I couldn't give all of me to anyone. And I would not want all of your mind and you soul. And you would be hurt, and then you would come to hate me - how bitterly! You would hate the books I read and the music I loved, because they took me away from you even for a moment. [...]
- But you said you cared.
- [...] I should not have said it, for I knew you wouldn't understand. How could I help caring for you - you who are have all the passion for life that I have not? You who can love and hate with a violence impossible to me? Why, you are as elemental as fire and wind and wild things and I..."