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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."
"When you became the love, everyone around you becomes your lover."
"There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment)."
"Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry."
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
"It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."
"Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works."
"The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks."
"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
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