The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
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The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.Elizabeth Bowen
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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