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"What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me."
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"I prefer having sex with myself rather than with someone who wants something instead."

"Lovers look in the pants, they look in the eyes."

"Polygamy is about sex, whereas monogamy is about love."

"Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you've 'known' for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the 'previous' level."

"Relationships may become wrecked by a quirky syndrome: the "Ain't broke, don't fix-syndrome. When there is no interaction in the neural network and no breakthrough into the mind but only a shallow skin experience, living together might be very torturous. If a heartfelt bond has not been molded, nothing can be broken and thus nothing needs to be fixed. ['I wonder what went wrong']"

"We fellowship with God when we fellowship with people."

"The devil will try to discourage you, to divert you; he will seek to dilute your testimony; he will attempt anything to destroy your relationship to Christ and your influence upon others."

"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."

"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."

"I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing."
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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."


"Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, because only extroverts cry twice; I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her."


"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."


"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."


"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."


"Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing."


"Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you."
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