The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in read more
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It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in someone else's.
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