[Exuding a blend of power and sensuality that defied gender expectations, Garbo] made you understand passion, ... She identified the bittersweet quality of love better than any star.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

She has a certain kind of power and sensuality and strength. The way I perceived Stella, she has it, ... And there's a softness in Angela that I don't think you've seen in other movies.

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Once in a stately passion / I cried with desperate grief,/ 'O Lord, my heart is black with guile,/ Of sinners I am chief.'"