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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do read more
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, read more
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn read more
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.
The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.
