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“The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”

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“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.”

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“Everyone knows how to love, because we are all born with that gift. Some people have a natural talent for it, but the majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception, needs to burn on the bonfire of past emotions, to relive certain joys and griefs, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter; because there is a connecting thread.”

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“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it-which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.”

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“I have discovered the reason why a man pays for a woman: he wants to be happy.”

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“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write and write about love-otherwise, my soul won't survive.”

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“I m two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved.”

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“...pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that brings only joy: love.”

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“That embrace in which two bodies refuse to become one again is what we call sex.”

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“A bird like that must fly free and feed on nostalgia for the same time when he flew alongside someone else.”

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“I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing a battle with each other.”

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“The world enjoys suffering and pain. There's sadism in the way we look at these things, and masochism in our conclusion that we don't need to know all this in order to be happy, and yet we watch other people's tragedies and sometimes suffer along with them.”

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“He felt that his career was leading him to a point where he would become dependent on success, and that frightened him, because he had seen a lot of people plummet from the heights.”

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“It's really easy being as romantic as people in the movies, don't you think?”

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