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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
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"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."
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"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
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"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
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"Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself."
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"In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile-no black, white, yellow, or red. We could be one great brotherhood in Jesus Christ. However, until we come to recognize Him as the Prince of Peace and receive His love in our hearts, the racial tensions will increase, racial demands will become more militant, and a great deal of blood will be shed. The race problem could become another flame out of control!"
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"The proof of true love for God is in service to others."
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"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."
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"Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steeled themselves to go through the present agony of parting, they would almost certainly be happier ten years hence than marriage is at all likely to make them - even then, they would not part."
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"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
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"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love

"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
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"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude

"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
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"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
Conversation

"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James."
Reading

"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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