# Quote — Simon Sebag Montefiore, One Night in Winter

> ‘Do you know Ovid’s poems on love?’ she said. ‘He wrote that the bedroom is the only place where you can do exactly what you please, and truly be yourself.’

- Author: [Simon Sebag Montefiore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simon-sebag-montefiore.md)
- Book: [One Night in Winter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simon-sebag-montefiore/one-night-in-winter.md)
- Page: 299
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simon_Sebag_Montefiore#One_Night_in_Winter_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/simon-sebag-montefiore/one-night-in-winter/do-you-know

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> He hated Genrikh because true possession is to share the fabric of someone else’s life, he decided; it’s about proximity; love as geography.

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