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..." 

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