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Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's no living with th...more

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Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

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Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired object. While the correct valuation of a person is a...more

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I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

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My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

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Dear God, teach me to be careless.

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I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the same time, you have to find the righ...more

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If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old noti...more

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Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

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Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath her duvet - that he was intruding. At the same ti...more

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I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style....more

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If there’s no sacrifice, there’s no love.