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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

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He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatom...more

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If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from you...more

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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don...more

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Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

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The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't...more

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Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out an...more

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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thous...more

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My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can t...more

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Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any on...more

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Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go ...more

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The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many...more

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Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgi...more

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The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which mean...more