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"When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin."
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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."

"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
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