"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.“


-Emma Goldman

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If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

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