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[saritha]

"sometimes, when she herself wearied of love-talk, she tried to open her heart seriously to him. she saw him listen deferentially, but without understanding. this killed her efforts at a finer intimacy, and she had flashes of fear...the pity was, she was too much his opposite. she could not be content with the little he might be; she would have him the much he ought to be. so, in seeking to make him nobler than he could be, she destroyed him. she injured and hurt and scarred herself, but she lost none of her worth"

- d.h.lawrence, sons & lovers