Wolf Solent - pg. 408

... and during the lingered-out and shameless caresses which he enjoyed before he would let her approach the stove, Wolf was compelled to come to the conclusion that erotic delight has in itself the power of becoming a kind of absolute. He felt as if it became a sort of ultimate essence into which the merely relative emotions of the two preoccupied ones sank -- indeed were so utterly lost that a new identity dominated the field of their united consciousness, the admirable identity of amorousness in itself, the  actual spiritual form, or "psychic being," of the god Eros!