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He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill ...more

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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

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[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same th...more

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motionless, willing his eyes to see that she had stopped...more

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The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in fact he doesn't reall...more

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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just str...more

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Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between for you and me to wait in until g...more