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The enchantment and glamour in which lovers find themselves are too often false and deceptive, mere preliminary devices used by Nature to get them together and thus fulfil her larger purposes. The ancient Greek or Roman thinker who likened their condition to a form of madness was not so far wrong as he seems. But too often also it is subject to change; the glamour goes or is transferred elsewhere or, worse, is transformed into repulsion. And where sex is not the hidden operative factor, one of the two is a victim of--or possessed by--some other force: ambition, economic need, vanity, the power complex.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 82