"Despite your warning that nobody ever changes for a mere woman, I think we shall both change a little. What’s the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as-you-were? If he hopes for an inner change, a release from the monotony of certain habitual reactions, that’s partly why he’s in love, why he troubled, so to speak, to fall in love instead of just having an affair. And the hope is part of the man as much as the habitual reactions. If you take him “as is” you take the hope too."
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Mary MacCarthy , letter to Hannah Arendt
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/06/10/mary-mccarthy-hannah-arendt-love/
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