Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. Couples (1968)
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. Couples (1968)
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. Couples (1968)
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian. Couples (1968)