"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."
-Elizabeth Bowen
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"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
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"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible."
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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
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"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
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