Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in. - Thomas Hardy

Stupors, however, do not last forever

Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against the fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death. Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.