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"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
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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."

"A man, who needs you, will not come to visit you in the middle of the night. If he is there, definitely wants to stop you from being helpful."

"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

"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."

"Also I could hear Amanda's voice: Why are you being so weak? Love's never a fair trade. So Jimmy's tired of you, so what, there's guys all over the place like germs, and you can pick them like flowers and toss them away when they're wilted. But you have to act like you're having a spectacular time and every day's a party."

"A woman does not marry with a man for his wealth, unless he is too rich and a man does not marry with a girl for her beauty, unless she is too beautiful."

"Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child."
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"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."

"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"

"For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence."

"The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible."

"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."

"Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes."

"We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols."

"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."

"But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially."
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