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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
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The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
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Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
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Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
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We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
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