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WhatHale, EmilyTSE's love for;x2increases his desire to quarrel with EH;c1 I desire with you is as much Conflict as Unity. I know both the desire to dominate, to influence, to make someone else into my own image; and the desire to be ruled, to be dominated, to be influenced, to make myself into someone else’s image. The desire to be a master, and to be a slave. The desire to be an idol, and a worshipper. But these conflicting desires are only harmonised by a third (everyone goes by trinities) the Desire for Conflict. The more I love you, the more I want to quarrel with you. Over small things, mostly. But over big things, too. TheHale, Emilyreligious beliefs and practices;x1compared to TSE's;a5 factChristianityUnitarianism;d9divides EH from TSE;a6 that I am a Trinitarian, and that you are a Unitarian, matters very much to me. It means a Fight. Of course I mean to win. Very likely I shan’t. I go into certain Households, where there are Catholics like me, and I think, I am in communion with these people, as I am not with Emily: we accept, we take for granted, certain things which to Emily will seem only degraded superstitions <or beautiful ‘Symbolism’. Dear me, these things, when you look at them a few days later, seem very different! Still, I want Emily to know all my thoughts at the moment when I thought them>;1 and in being in communion with such people, I feel at the same time in closer communion with Emily. There is a feeling of holiness, which to Emily will be only superstitious. And Emily does not go to church regularly. And yet all the things which might seem to divide me more completely from Emily are really things that attach me to her more closely. The more I feel, I have things in common with such people that I have not with Emily; the more I feel, yet I have (even if she does not admit the fact) things in common with Emily that I have not, and she has not, with anyone else. I am quite aware that this is one-sided. It doesn’t matter whether you agree or not: perhaps much better that you should not.
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