“If anything gives meaning to our lives, rich or poor, yesterday or today, here or elsewhere, it is affection. Without it, every bit of philosophical or scientific research will leave us in an existential emptiness. Life is viable because someone, even just once, looked at us with love.”
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“If you do not know the meaning of affection, you will be affected”
“She’s the only real thing in a world of echoes.”
“I guess that’s the soft spot for orphans, eh? We’re so hungry for a father that we go blind.”
“Lady, my handful of crumpled heart aches for your bushel of affection”