In a message dated 10/19/12 5:56:15 AM, [email protected] writes:
> - The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of > expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. > > Marya Mannes > Jane Austen (i.e. one of her characters) said: bThe more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!b And she spoke of: "...that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself..."
