croathia:“I truly loved Alfred. It isn’t enough to say I loved him, I adored him. And
croathia: “I truly loved Alfred. It isn’t enough to say I loved him, I adored him. And I don’t know why I write that in the past tense, for I love him still. And yet, in feelings of grief, there is an involuntary element, as well as an element of duty that fixes the involuntary part and ensures its durability.” Marcel Proust’s letter to Reynaldo Hahn on his loved one who drowned in the Mediterranean in 1914. -- source link