Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"That's easy to say. But I will go as if you didn't exist--yet
only because you do exist. You exist in me. I don't know where I
end and you begin. You have got into my heart and into my veins
and into my brain."

"Take this fancy out and trample it down in the dust," she said in
a tone of timid entreaty.

"Heroically," I suggested with the sarcasm of despair.