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But she had indulged in a summer of passion, and it had left her changed. In the words of Sappho, Eros shook my mind, like a mountain wind falling on oak trees. She had eaten the apple; she could not return to humility. Desire had ruined
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“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
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“[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.”
― Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
― Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“I just wanted to talk to him, to breathe in his words, to understand what made his brilliant mind tick.”
― The Dead Romantics
― The Dead Romantics
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