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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
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"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
"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."
"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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