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"We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body."
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"I think this'll definitely tide me over while we're apart,Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate.'Oh, Kitten, he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. 'You didn't really think we were done, did you?"

"Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land."

"Love is beautiful even if they are in movies and books."

"I want you to spend the night, you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex, or "Let's go to my place, or even "I really want you, I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you."

"PROPOSE DAY POEM:Austerity..If.. I were to define..it's you.. yoo hoo!-Happiness is what.. that makes me feel divine.. smiling you.. yoo hoo!!-What rose is in flowers..What moon is in stars..That you are to me..You and I will be we..You're my life.. I.. I..You're my life.. I.. I..I love you.. yoo hooI love you.. yoo hoo-O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl.. you be mine..I love you.. I love you.. I love you.. yoo hoo.. You be my.. Valentine.-Just be mine.. I love you..O O Valentine!!!"

"He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him."
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."

"I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine."

"The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic-a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall."

"The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people, it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."

"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."

"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."

"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."

"We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible."

"In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity-and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top."
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