All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
("Eleven Minutes")
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And she already has her treasure: it's you.
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I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
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