Complete and utter madness

[Brueghel o Jovem - Provérbios (pormenor)]

«Even if she hadn't been unfaithful to me yet, she wanted to, and I knew she wanted to, and that made it even worse. It would have been better if she'd actually done it and I'd known about it, so there wouldn't have been this uncertainty. I wouldn't have been capable of saying what it was I wanted. I wanted her not to want what she couldn't help wanting. It was complete and utter madness.»

Tolstói, A sonata Kreutzer, tradução de David McDuff