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“No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, dear to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate... [there are] the ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don’t look, don’t smell, don’t dream.”