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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

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I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.

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Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away ...more

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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

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Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

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This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

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Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. I...more

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Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to belie...more

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You know I love you. You're the only one.""She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life,...more

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Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was ...more

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How much misery . . . how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? R...more

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So by the time the morning came, Odysseus and I were indeed friends, as Odysseus had promised we would be. Or let me put it another way: I myself had ...more

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If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

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Then there's the twoof us. This wordis far too short for us, it has onlyfour letters, too sparseto fill those deep barevacuums between the starsthat p...more

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You all right?" he said again.I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was seeing him through a smeared window or glossy paper; ...more