"That was not what she needed. What she needed was a love that would absorb her whole being, her..."

“That was not what she needed. What she needed was a love that would absorb her whole being, her reason, her whole soul, that would give her ideas, an object in life, that would warm her very blood.”

- Anton Chekhov, from Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; “The Darling,”
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