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"Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex."
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"I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was."
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"Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers."
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"I prefer having sex with myself rather than with someone who wants something instead."
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"It began with a hello, and ended in hell."
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"Lovers look in the pants, they look in the eyes."
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"Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all."
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"Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me."
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"I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter even when it does not lead to sexual pleasure, committed bonding, or even sustained contact. The myth of true love-that fairy-tale vision of two souls who meet, join, and live happily ever thereafter-is the stuff of childhood fantasy. Yet many of us, female and male, carry these fantasies into adulthood and are unable to cope with the reality of what it means to either have an intense life-altering connection that will not lead to an ongoing relationship or to be in a relationship. True love does not always lead to happily ever after, and even when it does sustaining love still takes work."
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"When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates."
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"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
Art
"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
Learning
"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."
Health
"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"
Philosophy
"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
Sociology
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
Answers
"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
Life
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
Truth
"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt."
Character
"To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better."
Art
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