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"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."
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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."


"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."


"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."


"The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer."


"I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them."
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