SELF-SACRIFICE is perhaps the vilest deed a man can do.
The self that we are, at its best, is all that we are
is the very individual flame of life itself
which is the man’s pure self.
And to sacrifice that, to anything or anybody whatsoever
is the vilest cowardice and treachery.
Yet a woman can add her flame to a man’s
or a man can add his flame to the flame of another man
as a gift of gladness, seeing the glamour of life go up
swifter and higher and brighter, for the yielding and the
adding together.