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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

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I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the future you will be alone, although at your husban...more

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But in her loneliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and she discovered with great delight that one does not ...more

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I'll never fall in love again," he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself that sort of confidence. ...more