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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

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He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love.

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She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.

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You won't get love from a child if you don't give love.

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I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

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I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-de...more

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There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.