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"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
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"Lovers look in the pants, they look in the eyes."

"Polygamy is about sex, whereas monogamy is about love."

"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."

"You love her for a life time and still you are a stranger."

"Your Temporary Santa, "He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you."

"Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child."

"Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."

"It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick."

"I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man."

"Good lovers are not good fuckers, because they cannot bear hurting their beloved."
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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"


"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."


"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."


"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."


"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."


"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."


"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."
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