A good nepo husband knows to like let his wife be a star, but so many men struggle with that and they like want a piece of the pie and then they they drown the whole pie.
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The escape would have been to love her; then, then he would have lived. She had lived — who could say now with what passion? — since she had loved him for himself…
Henry James
We are always making gods of those who are indifferent to us, and martyrs of those who love us.
Ellen Glasgow — The Descendant
We live, as we dream—alone; and what makes it maddening is that we know it, and yet cannot help ourselves from dreaming that some other solitude will someday reach across and be company to our own.
Joseph Conrad — Lord Jim