Meaning of “What is done out of love always takes…”

Pensées; Pascal contrasts forms of knowing associated with the heart and with discursive reason.

Symposium, Aristophanes’s speech, Benjamin Jowett translation, Project Gutenberg #1600. The sentence concludes the comic myth of humans split into halves; it is a speaker position inside Plato’s dialogue, not direct autobiography or anthropology by Plato.

Act 2, Scene 2; Juliet separates Romeo from the social meaning of his family name.

Indian Summer of a Forsyte, represented in Project Gutenberg #2594. Irene says the line to old Jolyon while speaking about her dead lover; it is emotionally charged fictional dialogue, and the surrounding conversation immediately gives old Jolyon a more ironic response.

All for Love, represented by Project Gutenberg #2062. Dolabella speaks the line while reflecting on Antony’s passion and his own conflicting attraction to Cleopatra. It is dramatic character speech inside a tragedy, not Dryden autobiography or a universal developmental claim.

Howards End, Chapter XXII, Project Gutenberg #2946. The narrator summarizes Margaret’s hope of reconciling “the prose and the passion” in Henry with “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.” The sentence belongs to the novel’s thematic and character context rather than serving as a complete formula for every relationship.