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In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.

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I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's.

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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

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I lay in bed last night and thought of G.P. I thought of being in bed with him. I wanted to be in bed with him. I wanted the marvellous, the fantastic...

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Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a littl...

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What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.

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It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ord...

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You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their plac...

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I want to tell you what's really happened.""Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me."And we did make love; not sex, but...

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I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed toget...