"I understand now that the only truly tragic and heart-breaking period of my life, when I was truly in soul-pain and in danger of spiritual death, was the time before I came to love you. And I grasp, only now and only in part, that far from being the peak and climax of my life, such as it has been, meeting you all those years ago was in truth the beginning of my life; I never lived before I loved you."
"I understand now that the only truly tragic and heart-breaking period of my life, when I was truly in soul-pain and in danger of spiritual death, was the time before I came to love you. And…