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"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory."
"Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time."Pfft, Levi said, "I'm picking out my own dress."
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
"Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship."
"Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States."
"Unfailing friends are essential, when 'presence' and 'absence' are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend)."
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"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."
"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."
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