"Well, there are psychologists who think that consciousness accompanies brain processes and is determined by them, but doesn't itself exert any influence on them. Something like the reflection of a tree in water; it couldn't exist without the tree, but it doesn't in any way affect the tree. I think it's all stuff and nonsense to say that there can be love without passion; when people say love can endure after passion is dead they're talking of something else, affection, kindliness, community of taste and interest, and habit. Especially habit. Two people can go on having sexual intercourse from habit in just the same way as they grow hungry at the hour they are accustomed to have their meals. Of course there can be desire without love. Desire isn't passion. Desire is the natural consequence of the sexual instinct and it isn't of anymore importance than any other function of the human animal. That's why women are foolish to make a song and dance if their husbands have an occasional flutter when the time and place are propitious... Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment." The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
WE ALL AREN'T GOING TO NEVER NOT DIE!!
