"Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately."

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People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

— Albert Camus