"Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.
Passion out of passion's obstacles.
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"Be with someone you don't want to be without.
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"Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?
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"And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
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