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“If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.”

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“At some point, our lips met and it was perhaps the most wonderful thing I'd ever experienced. And truly, I guess there wasn't just one kiss, but several. A polite frenzy. A mass migration of delicate wildebeest kisses. I remember them as one transcendent event, though.”

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“I can't help thinking that caring possibly is the riskiest enterprise known to man. But how stop caring?”

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