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For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our c...more

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This scene expresses the basic situation of immaturity; lyricism is an attempt to face that situation: the individual expelled from the protected encl...more

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He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivis...more

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given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in t...more

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If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Lo...more

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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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On her way toward the shore, she kept coming across weekend tourists. Every cluster of them presented the same pattern: the man was pushing a stroller...more

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...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.(in that case my friend Hubl would have pointe out to me, no o...more

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Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ours...more

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for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, aw...more

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So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

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In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her me...more

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She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

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Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendshi...more