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"How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It's no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired."

"Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society's disapproval."

"What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch."

"But I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me."
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"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."

"Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway."

"The incredibly powerful and enriching lifestyle of seeking beauty is a humble service of love and healing."
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