.. .how he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, ..

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. . .how he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, . .

is a line written by W. Somerset Maugham in his short story, “On a Chinese Screen”. The idea that love can be a mystery is a common theme in many poems and stories from romantic fiction.

In this case, when Maugham wrote this line he was suggesting that love shouldn’t have to be so cut and dry. He was simply trying to explain why his characters were unable to comprehend how much they loved each other.

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