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"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
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"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"

"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."

"Everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location."

"Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art."

"Anything cracked will shatter at a touch."

"Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all."

"She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous."

"Money has to serve, not to rule."

"They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer fright."
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"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."


"Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want."


"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."


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


"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters."


"We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or the clearly scientific angle of perspective. One of the deepest lessons we have to learn is that nature, of its nature, resists this. It waits to be seen otherwise, in its individual presentness and from our individual presentness."
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