"...love as the Ancients understood it..."

“[...] And then she fell in love. She fell in love silently, obstinately – perhaps helplessly. It came slowly, but when it came it worked like a powerful spell; it was love as the Ancients understood it: an irresistible and fateful impulse – a possession! Yes, it was in her to become haunted and possessed by a face, by a presence, fatally, as though she had been a pagan worshipper of form under a joyous sky - and to be awakened at last from that mysterious forgetfulness of self, from that enchantment, from that transport, by a fear resembling the unaccountable terror of a brute...”

Joseph Conrad, “Amy Foster”

From the 1997 film, based on the story,  Swept from the sea, starring Rachel Weisz and Vincent Pérez.