Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life. — William Somerset Maugham

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.